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.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
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 believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.
I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.