Don't take away my Internet

Hey omnicell,

I feel the same way. Sometimes this is the only safe place I have to share in.

To me an addiction is an addiction when it's a problem -- when it tears you away from your life. When instead of spending the night with your partner you spend it on the Internet; when instead of having real-life sex you watch porn obsessively; when instead of seeing your best friend you call in sick and stay at home with curtains closed, on the Internet; when you are taken to hospital because you played online games for 72 hours without sleep or food. But there's nothing wrong with *using* Internet. Most people manage to use it for work or play in a sensible manner.

Hope I am one of those most people

I have a terrible case of internet addiction because the alternative, is going out into the 'real world' and 'getting a life'.

I was never really any good at 'getting a life' before the internet came along, so why should leaving the internet make it easier for me to get one?

I suffer with Asperger's Disorder, so at least online, I don't have to worry about picking up on any body language or social cues and nobody gets sarcasm online, so I am safe there, too. lol

Yes, I use it as an escape, so I don't have to deal with 'real people', but who am I kidding, right?

Anonymity just blows that whole idea totally out of the water, when people will say and do things to you that they wouldn't dare say to your face, because they would be liable for suit, or a broken nose.

However, I get so tired and upset by other people 'playing god' with my participation on the internet...'you cannot say this'....'you cannot post that'...'our rules are non-arbitrary, so we don't care if you are mentally ill'....'yes, we can ban you based solely on the fact that we don't like you'...there is less freedom of expression online than in real life, and the 'rules' are made by those who either have corporate interests or a megalomaniac tendency, because there's little to no individual recourse for what happens online.

Thus, I am hopelessly and helplessly addicted to the internet and that's an addiction that I'd like to break somehow because I do not enjoy it, it makes me unhappy and miserable, it shows the ugly side of human beings, I am totally unwelcome on it, but still, I cannot manage to break away (and I have tried going for 24 hours without it and I was climbing the walls with withdrawal symptoms). I also realise that I am missing out on 'life', but the way I see it, I am not missing out on much there.

So, I really need help and assistance to break this addiction and I thank all in advance who can assist me here.