Getting degraded online made me hate a hobby I love

I made this post online on a forum geared towards writing which is a hobby I love and have loved doing for the past decade. I have this story I've been working on and wanting to make into a comic back in middle school, but since I'm now in uni and I don't have a lot of free time to draw I decided to make it into a novel instead. I've been working on said novel on and off for the past five years and decided to redraft and take it seriously a few weeks ago. In this post I wrote about my situation and joked how I don't really read novels in attempt to look for someone that's on the same boat as me. I expected to either get ignored or have one person comment a similar story to mine, imagine my shock when I woke up the next day to 20+ comments degrading me.

I guess it was partly my fault for not specifying what "I don't read" means, most of the comments assumed I've never picked up a book but I really meant I haven't picked up a book to read leisurely since high school (a few years ago). Anyways I got a lot of snarky comments just calling me stupid or how I'm wasting my time writing and I'm a shitty author, some even discrediting the creation of comics saying that making comics is a lot easier than writing novels. I know I shouldn't take what people say online personally but every time I work on my novel I can't help but remember the mean things I read and it makes me just want to stop writing. It's been weeks since I made and deleted that post and it's also been weeks since I last touched my novel, I used to be able to write pages in a day but now I can barely even write a sentence. A hobby I once did for comfort is now I hobby I try to avoid.