Great contest! Thanks for offering it 🌷❤🌷

When did you find Steem?
For the longest while, i think it was over a year. I watched a fb friend share her Steemit blog posts on her fb account. So, that was 2016-2017. I signed up in Oct 2017.

What did you first write about?
The first 2.5 months i commented a lot. Then my first post was inspired by my online friend mentioned above. It was a Walkwithme Post. It was entirely exhilarating doing that post!

What was your first impression?
I was curious. I knew a bit about blockchain and cryptos and wanted to be involved in them. When i saw my freind starting to have her dreams come alive, she was making professional videos of her song -- because of support she had from the Steemit community, i wanted to really check it out!! I guess i was feeling inspired by the opportunity of something new and totally different than what I already knew. I was dealing with head injury so I made the decision to stick out the learning curve, take as much time learning as i needed, and to have fun with the process. If i got stressed or frustrated I'd leave it a while until my attitude adjusted. The more i learned the more determined i became to stick it out, and never give up.

Who was your first "fan"?
@lyndsaybowes was my first supporter. She was a tireless mentor to me. I likely wouldn't have stuck out the learning curve without her. Her upvotes were also encouraging and fun to get. Crypto was quite a rodeo When I started blogging! The first thing i got into, which was before i signed-up my account was @wwf's book "Graduating Life with Honours". He released one chapter at a time. I was so into the book! I think i chatted with him about it on fb until i could make Steemit comments. I'd like to think he was a fan but what i know is that our relationship began then.

Back to the question -- My first autovotes came from @sagescrub seeing that support was a game changer. It felt like i had my first fan! It was an awesome feeling 🌷❤🌷