Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
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.
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.
Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.