Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.
The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.