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That you can quickly pick up coding with a few courses.
Can you learn it? Sure why not. Just keep in mind that you'll never stop learning, so it has to fit into your lifestyle.
Further, you'll have to be patient and be able to deal with stress well. If you can't adjust yourself to work in a team, you'll have difficulty finding work.
Another misconception is that coders stay alone at home in a dark room all the time. Coding is just one part of your life and people do all sorts of stuff.
Yeah lots of people who aren't in tech think of coding as a solitary job, but it's a very social-skills-dependent job.
Social skills required to be a coder (at least; probably forgetting many):
As an autistic person, I struggled mightily with the social skill requirements of being a coder on a team. I ultimately failed. I'd like to go back and try again, after doing some really basic shit to improve my own character.