"My Story: Ryan White"

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This paper discusses the story of Ryan White - an apparently relatively ordinary boy, who became a national AIDS spokesperson. The author points out that his strength was manifested not simply in his willingness to endure pain but also in his willingness to share his pain with the world and to use his own struggle to advance the cause of civil rights. The paper discuses that Ryan's high school barred him from attending because they were afraid of his AIDS, but he battled in the courts to win the right to go to school in his town district.

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"AIDS, no matter who has it, states Ryan in the book, is not a judgment, merely an illness. He did not see himself as an innocent sufferer. Rather he believed that all people who suffer from AIDS are innocent victims. Ryan White understood this well, given the fact he had suffered from hemophilia from birth, another illness that indiscriminately affects its sufferers and takes away their health and often their lives. Ryan had never allowed his hereditary illness to limit his life before. Thus he was determined that AIDS would not slow him down either, nor prevent him from enjoying a normal life, or at least as normal as he could manage to live it."

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