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.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

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

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.