As a kid two years younger that also grew up in Florida, got obsessed with making games (though with the BYOND engine), created/deleted crappy but gradually less crappy games, eventually got into music and especially prog instead (pink floyd was my favorite band - dream theater was my first concert), had most likely undiagnosed ADHD (my assessment is actually tomorrow!), thought about going to Full Sail for either game dev or music production, this was a very fun read.