I'm 53... and that was how I started playing.
It took me two years and a bit of fiddling with the controller setting to "git gud". My K/D ratio for the first couple of years was 0.11 (prolly lower but that was the lowest it would show.) and I eventually got it up to 0.71 (approx 1.1 for the last few seasons).
Im amazed at how many people play these games without a headset. I can usually hear them before I see them.
Have you tried this?