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I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

I did get a degree in special education.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

If I get the chance to be philanthropic, I want to help kids and teachers.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.