Oh, that's a hard question... my biggest inspiration... A lot of people inspire me. It's hard to say. I was really into Linux, so I was inspired by Linux Torvalds,[...] and I always looked up to Steve Wozniak, and I still do. It'd be so cool if I had a chance to meet him. I'm also inspired by leaders in the technology community, like [BitTorrent creator] Bram Cohen, who have spoken publicly about their diagnosis. early in Wrong Planet's history and the site was Slashdotted because of it. We still talk on a regular basis, and I was able to visit him at BitTorrent headquarters when I was in San Francisco.

What do you see as the most rewarding thing to have come out of Wrong Planet?

The most important thing for me was actually being able to find friends on the spectrum who share my interests. I mean, there were other sites on the Internet for autism, but they had like five people, or maybe a couple hundred registered.

But the other important part is, I've had people come up to me and tell me that it's changed their lives. A lot of people are older when they find out [they had Asperger's] and their lives completely change because of this realization.

And I've seen this so consistently--it's not just a few people touched by the community. You look at the "" part of the where people post an introduction such as, 'I am so-and-so and this is my story,' and a lot of new members say that they went through their lives thinking they were the only one going through these issues and now they've finally found a place they can fit in for the first time.