This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.