Language learners genuinely confuse me

So I am a native English speaker, and fluent in four other languages: Spanish, German, French, and Italian. I did not start to learn these languages until around the age of 18. <br><br>However, there are so many people that I follow on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok that are genuinely obsessed with the idea that there is just something fundamentally and biologically different about people who are polyglots...<br><br>For example, I see people taking videos of themselves trying to speak a foreign language and genuinely freaking out because of how hard it is to get over their anxiety of being a native English speaker and speaking a foreign language to a native speaker. <br><br>I read posts and watch videos of people talking about how you have to be "gifted" or that there is some kind of biological difference between people who are polyglots and those who are not. <br><br>Personally, I think it is 100% mental and not biological. I don't think there is *anything* fundamentally different between polyglots and monolinguals. <br><br>Yes, I personally hate speaking with native speakers face to face. but I am able to do so and I have been for years... I just had an honest conversation with someone on TikTok about how I genuinely do not think there is a difference at all and they were arguing that the actual *ssound* of the language is in fact a large roadblock to being able to learn and speak a language. <br><br>Personally, I think it is all mental. I follow polyglots who are complaining about things like this all the time...<br><br>Honestly, I do not understand why it has to be so hard for some people to grasp a concept like "anxiety with speaking a foreign language" when in fact it is not the *language* that is the roadblock, but rather the mental state of the learner...<br><br>If you have an opinion on this topic, please share :)