I was born on March 22, 1977 at what is now Hotel Dieu-Grace Hospital in Windsor, Ontario.
My biological mother was told by the doctors who delivered me that I had a visual impairment.
My parents lived at a house on Victoria Avenue in Windsor's west end. In that same area, my grandparents lived at a house on Hall Avenue.
In 1980, my father was transferred from the Crysler plant in Windsor when the plant closed. So the family moved to Oshawa to 286 Shamrock Court.