How old were you when got into prog? how

I was 13 almost 14 years old when I discovered progressive music. I remember when my dear uncle brought some Maxell tapes into the house. He went into his bedroom; actually it was all the men in the house bedroom. We were very poor and we had to share beds. So anyway the first tapes I remembered listening was YES: Drama, Rush some compilation from moving pictures to hermpherues. Pink Floyd: animals Genesis: Second out and them they were three and Kansas: Two for the show. At that time as a kid I was into what was current beside carabeam music because that where I am from. I was into Michael Jackson and that 80's stuff. I vividly remember listing those tapes it was like religious experiences. It brings tears to my eyes just to remember the great joy and unbelieble satisfaction that this music brought into my life. I never was the same kid ever again. Scene that day I can’t live without listening to progressive music. I even got a couple of kid form the neighbor into these prog-bands whao. Seriously From that day on I never stopped listening to prog Years later I stared building a rich and varieties collection of progressive and Jazz, Fusion.

I first it was so weird at first especially pink Floyd animals and some genesis songs. I loved Rush scene the first time I listen to them as well as Kansas. Floyd and Genesis had to grow on us for awhile.Now I listen more Floyd andGenesis  more that any other prog band.

 Well not everything was perfect and still isn’t .I had to deal with the same things over and over these days. My family was not too happy specially my grand- mother because she thought that me and my uncle was getting devil worshipping music. Imagining all these people that were only expose to their only kind of music the whole life. That sh*t was too weird for them. My uncle and I felt like outcast every where we went with the family and in the neighborhood. We still we feel like outcast to these days 22 years later. When we have to hang out with friends and family, that won't tolerate it for even 30 minutes... Prog means so much to us that we had to tolerated bad comment and criticism from anybody all the time., but  we did not give and still  we don’t give a f**k what people think, because the joy we get from prog is incomparable, well maybe I can compare with sex. We live to listen this kind of music that all. May God Bless Progressive rock musicians and the fans all around the world we are a big family and an international one?