I am a thirty-two-year old special education teacher from northern Virginia. I've recently gotten my Master's in Special Education from George Mason University, and currently in my eighth year of teaching students with disabilities, but I'm hoping to go on to add a degree and hoping to move out of special education teach either preschoolers or kindergarten students. I love to write, and though I won't be pursuing a career in writing, I would love to publish a book at some point in my life.

I do want to say that I also have challenges as well in my life, but it helped me become a better writer. I was born with a bilateral hearing loss that was mild, but now both of them are getting worse overtime. I do wear hearing aids, but I've learned to accept the fact that I am different from everybody else. Not only that, but at the beginning of this year, I was told that I was also autistic, but in this case, my autism is very high-functioning, and it's sometimes not as easy to detect at a young age. 

Most of my life, coming from a large family, the only type of autism that I've known was the kind that one of my brothers have, which is a severe, low-functioning form of autism. I never understood why someone would now label me as being autistic, but with the help of my writing and the challenges I still have to face with being hard of hearing, I'm learning to live with it.

My hope is that someone can see past the challenges I face with my writing and see a person who can write and enjoys doing it. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do write it.