Yes, I have been out for over a year now and I have found myself to be a much better person all together. I am able to associate more with people now, which means so very much to me since that was always the hardest part of my life. I too thought that I was never gonna make any friends and I was running out of time. It makes it even harder when I am a stay-at-home mother of 4 to get out and make friends. I don't really have friends that I go out with, but I have made friends that I will talk to or e-mail occasionally. I also realized that it took mostly an effort on my part to start to get to know someone. I noticed that a lot of people wouldn't come up to me first, I think mainly cause they didn't know how to take me. But, once they get to know me, I am really a nice, good-hearted friendly person. I used to think well there is not anybody out there that will have anything in common with me so why would they want to be my friend? But, there are people out there that have things in common with me, take this forum for example...This is why I love this website. There are so many people on here that I have noticed I can relate so much of my life with and I consider these people my friends, almost like my family now. This is definitely a good place to start!