Startled at Starting

Okay, what's with all these guides having no sympathies for beginners? Every blog I looked at jumped right into explaining macros or how to join a group that's level 10 and up. What about getting to level 10? I made the mistake of trying to get some helpful hints at beginning before I started actually playing, and the texts out there overwhelmed me WAY more than the actual game. If you start the game and just toil around for a while, you can figure the basics out pretty well, but if you look for others to help you'll feel like you're in way over your head. WOW gamers seem like a culture of their own- they use their own language, with no explanation to us newbies and it's enough to make a person want to quit before they start. I mean, I've played video games before, but this is an entirely different world. I felt like I was setting out to learn a new language, with an entirely new alphabet, and I wasn't prepared for the vastness of it. Why can't their be a step by step video on youtube that simply shows you how to attack? Or how to level up? Or how to know which world to pick, which character, and which race. Here's my advice for newbies- just try playing the game for a while, and use your own smarts to proceed. Once it starts to feel a little monotonous (okay, i'm level five, how many more boars do I have to kill?) go look around for texts to make the experience a little more interesting. But I urge you to wait a little, and have a little faith in yourself, before turning to the fellow bloggers for help.