Yes to all of them except your last question, only because the other skaters at my rink are very nice and encouraging! I do wonder what the kids think about me, though.
I cannot say anything in skating comes naturally or easily to me, but I'm probably best at jumps. On the other hand, I've been working on my sit spin for two years, and I still can't pull my free leg all the way in so it's touching the other one. My progress moves at a snail's pace, and I skate almost every day.
Earlier this year, my coach reworked my forward crossovers. Last night, my bronze moves looked so bad that she apparently didn't think it was worth continuing, so she instead assigned me drills to work on instead of the moves themselves. She had me do forward power pulls. And when those went badly, she had me do slaloms.
I said, "Aren't these like beta level?"
"Oh, never mind. It's not like we've been working on this whole time you've been skating!" she said cheerfully. She's so nice.
So, tomorrow morning I'll practice my slaloms while the pre-pre skaters working on backwards power pulls zoom past me.