It took me nearly 2 whole years to get the courage to really jump into the community here. I checked the site constantly during those two years, and read so many things that, if nothing else, made me feel less weird and less alone. Its only been the last month or so that I finally got the nerve to try to communicate with others. I bet a lot of the people who lurk are just nervous about typing things out. Or they are having a blast reading about our "issues:"...