Welcome to Susan's, Ashley.

There's a lot of good information and good people here. Each of our stories is unique but we have a lot in common. Settle in, pull up a keyboard, and explore.
Be sure to look under the Announcements heading. There you will find the rules we live by in this little world of ours: "Site Terms of Service and Rules to Live By", "Standard Terms and Definitions", and "Post Ranks". Look through the other stuff there, too.
There are a whole mess of FTMs around here somewhere who will understand you better than I probably can, but we are all just trying to figure out how to be ourselves.
Happy exploring.

- Kate