Hello Everyone! My name is Timmy Le and I am a Biomedical Science Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Today, I would like to share my academic journey as a scientist who happens to have a physical disability known as cerebral palsy along with a seizure disorder. Being a first-generation college student whose parents immigrated to the U.S., I had to overcome some challenges in my scientific career to get to where I am today. One of the big ones was the language barrier that my family faced and the other one was the doubt that my earlier educators placed on me when I was younger. I do not blame them for this since it is common practice to put a child with cerebral palsy in a non-mainstream classroom so that they can receive individualized attention, but it is the doubt and possibility of not being able to work to my potential that made me wonder what my life would be like if my mother did not fight for me to put me in a mainstream classroom . Wha...