Unable to reset Apple ID password on MacBook Air M3

Last year I bought a used MacBook Air M3 and have een very happy with it, but for the past 6 months I was in a post-op rehab facility and my laptop sat there, plugged in but not used. I tried to reset my Apple id password but it seems not to have worked. So I used the iPhone method to reset the password again ,also on the Mac Air, and over and over. I have a list of non-functional passwords. In my password app I see one of the earlier p/w's but it does not work. There is one page on which there is a working p/w and it is all dots so I can't read it and I don't know it it is one of the earlier attempted changes.

Any suggestions, I am running out of options.........

p.s.: In another post I have an older MBP but I have to update that question.