I've had several relationships since having HIV. I'm very consistent and very safe with how I use condoms and when I use condoms. I've never given HIV to anyone else.

The chances of someone getting HIV from having sex with me are probably less than going out and having sex with someone that they don't know whether or not they have HIV and not using a condom.

I was doing speaking to public schools, private schools, medical conferences and conventions and group homes and shelters virtually every day of the week, for five days a week, for the past three years. For a time it felt like I was really making a difference, because I always thought if someone had come to me that mirrored my image and said this happened in my life, it would've made HIV real for me, that maybe I wouldn't have HIV if I had met someone like myself. Over time, I started feeling like I'm being used as an example of 'Don't do what this kid did,' basically. And I just began to resent it more and more.

I am many other things before I'm a person with HIV. I'm athlete, and a weight lifter, and a runner, and do all my little projects, and quilting and hat making, and a student now.

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