Coming out and living your authentic life is hard enough to add cerebral palsy; it makes the process twice as hard. My family accepted me for who I was, and I could finally be my most authentic self. Shortly after that, I began to use social networking apps to make friends in the LGBTQ+ community. Now, growing up, I lived a shy and sheltered life filled with many surgeries and many rounds of physical therapy aimed at making walking and other activities easier for me to complete independently. I never hung out with my peers after school or participated in a nightly group chat with my closest friends because there were so many factors I needed to consider along with my timidness, like the accessibility of a building or whether I could get into the person’s car on my own. As a result, when I began to use social networking apps to connect with peers in the LGBTQ community, that was a massive leap for me out of my shell. However, I struggled to connect with others my age because there was a disconnect when it came to understanding how my disability impacted me as a person. Nor did they understand that before I met them in person, I needed a deep sense of trust and intimacy to know they looked at me for the person who I was on the inside and not the physical body on the outside. Often, I would end up blocked by people, or they would force me to do things I was uncomfortable doing. These experiences inspired me to teach the LGBTQ community about the intersectionality of their community and the disability community. I recently interned at the Grand Rapids Pride Center, where I created a disability and accessibility education guide for community members to learn about intersectionality and the role disability plays within the LGBTQ community. The guide includes definitions of disabilities, works of LGBTQ disability justice leaders of color such as Alice Wong and Patty Berne, and language rules to follow when discussing disabilities. My hope with the guide is that community members will educate their friends and family about disability or support those disabled community members whose work goes unrecognized daily. I start graduate school in July to work on my MSW in clinical social work, specializing in school social work. I want to be a child and family therapist or counselor and a support system or advocate for children and families facing adversities by guiding them to the light at the end of the tunnel. Throughout my life, therapy has helped me work through my sexual orientation, my parent’s divorce, and family conflicts. I want to show children like me that with a disability, you can still be your most authentic self and have a successful life.