Hi Becca,
Firstly, welcome to the forum and hope you enjoy it....
We all went through the same thing of being restricted to many areas. As Toddy said, you need to take part in more discussion and I know they will let you in to take part of many more areas. We really enjoy it and have discussionsof so many things. What is also very nice the forum, is that it is clean and everybody (as they start knowing each other), gets to be very good friends.
So, what I want to say, is that just start to be more active and be patient.
Hope to hear of you soon.
Footloose