Sometime in 2006, I created my neuroaster@yahoo.ca e-mail address (our old computer and it's old web-browser was HATING http://www.msn.com/ but that's another story). I had clinical depression and other issues, and I needed to somehow give meaning to the two decades of verbal and emotional abuse from members of my family who couldn't admit to themselves that my autism was part of who I am, that it's impossible to just punish autism away (I still do have issues, and it looks like I always will). I was giving people here in http://winnipeg.ca/interhom information-pamphlets from http://aspergermanitoba.ca/ hoping that maybe raising public-awareness about autism would help me into a better space, mentally and emotionally.

Over time, as I periodically went in and out of my neuroaster@yahoo.ca e-mail, I began to discover that it was something more than just an e-mail address. I discovered http://answers.yahoo.com/ and noticed that it was a way of posting messages that anyone anywhere in the world could read if they had access to the right computer technology. I was active on http://answers.yahoo.com/ for awhile . . .

On Sunday, February 11, 2007, I noticed that one of my display options @ http://answers.yahoo.com/ was "Use your picture from 360" and there was a mouse-clickable link beside it that said "What is 360?" I looked into it . . . discovered a way of becoming the creator and editor of my own personal interactive magazine . . . and my life changed forever . . .