Hello and welcome to ECF. Personally, I suffer from anxiety and ADHD, so posting on forums has never gone well for me. I used to get kicked out of forums for saying the wrong things, or it would just take forever to get up the gumption to post, and then another forever to edit all my mistakes and make sure I was making sense and actually adding to the discussion instead of rambling. When I joined this forum I had no plans to actually join in, I just wanted access like you. I also pictured myself sitting in a corner once I got through that 5 post gauntlet. But once I started and discovered how welcoming and helpful everyone here is, I felt more confident and eventually found myself posting regularly, entering contests and dolling out advice, and even blogging my experiences with vaping. It still takes me a while to actually write and edit a post, but it's relatively painless now that I've had some practice. I've been here for 7 months and I've got over 500 posts under my belt, much to my surprise. Hopefully you'll have a similarly awesome experience here.