I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.