My experience with disabilities has influenced my beliefs, relationships, and career aspirations by making me believe that hard work is worth it in the end, especially if I want to be a teacher in special education, mainstream, or even both. One of my most prominent beliefs is that everyone should be included, especially disabled individuals. I was excluded from a mainstream class in fourth grade and will never forget that experience. It still haunts me to this day. I believe I was excluded because I was different from my peers. My experience with disability has dramatically affected my relationships- it can be hard for me to maintain relationships, mainly because I have multiple chronic illnesses alongside autism, epilepsy, ADHD, etc. It makes it hard for me to see my friends. Disability has affected my career aspirations, but I am determined to get my Associate's degree and then my Bachelor's degree in education. I cannot take my classes in person, so I am taking them online right now until I get my seizures under control. I was diagnosed with autism at eighteen months old, ADHD in second grade, and epilepsy in my sophomore year of high school. I was diagnosed with more chronic illnesses as I have gotten older. I had leadership experience in high school as an upperclassman taking my CTE education course. That day, there was a substitute teacher, and the children were starting to cause chaos because the regular teacher wasn't there. They figured they could get away with behaviors they couldn't when the regular teacher wasn't there. The children were wrong. I started disciplining and taking charge of some of them while the substitute teacher took charge of the rest of the students. They reluctantly started to behave themselves. I was ready to cry because I was overwhelmed by the chaos of the bad behavior, but then I calmed myself down and was ready to take charge along with the substitute teacher. I felt better about myself when it was time to ride the bus and return to high school, and I knew I could start improving my leadership skills at the time. Now, I am in the NSLS through my school, which teaches me how to improve my leadership skills. The NSLS is an honor society, and it is by invitation only. At the leadership training day (LTD) and my first Success Networking Team (SNT), we learned what it takes to be a leader and the different leadership positions, which was really helpful for me.