Answer:
Personally I didnt really get any validation growing up and had to do things mostly on my own if you arent hand held then you pick things up usefull things that help you progress further in the human world. yeah you may be sad from time to time but hey at least you have more skills than most.
The answer would be “but” since it contrasts his motivation with competing with others for a high score.
Hopefully this helped.
The first one has the good punctuation;
Let"s play ball ; I'm up to bat first (a semicolon)
hope I helped !
