What is a Self-taught artist

So, I’m going down a ramp with rollerblades, to pull the momentum needed to push upwards feeling stronger with practice and fearless abandon. A visual metaphor that explains how I see my artistic process. 
Self-teaching is diving in the air on a foggy day, using your magical thinking that makes no sense when financing a home, but somehow has a place to grow in a studio space where you can embrace the world in a delusional way. 
Self-teaching is taking the left turn instead of the right turn.
Self-teaching is a choice that you make with your Higher Power to work together on discovery of mastery. Progress not perfection is a lifetime achievement in process.

Self-taught is therefore saying , for me, I’m always learning and a student surrendering to my higher power to guide my way. 
Self-taught artists, knowingly or not, must surrender daily as a discipline to discover and improve as well as witness and fail many many many times forevermore. 
Self-taught artists goal is to find a flow that can change and will change, then also staying consistent and focused will transform your work to levels of excellence and other worldly qualities that are unexpected at times. 
Self-taught Artists with adhd have many ways of doing/making art, maybe with a prompt or commission they can keep on point yes, but all the while struggling with distractions as well as thriving with the powerful grind it can cause to push the process forward to complete the process, a constant internal pressure on it’s way to release. 
Self-taught artists have an awareness and humility that is likened to addicts in recovery, so step by step their lives given to a power greater than themselves trusting this is the only way to sanity/serenity. 

So, rollerblading along the road is how I see self-teaching my art today, I’ve gotten braver each time I decide to start rolling while I still fall/fail it’s part of the reason for living life just for today.