All Ryan White Quotes
Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.
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AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
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Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
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Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
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I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.
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The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
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The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
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My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
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This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
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On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
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Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
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We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.
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Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
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Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
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