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We ask for accommodations, for example, materials in braille instead of print, a lot of society refuses, putting up barriers, and that limits our ability to get an education, to go and get a job. And thats nat fear. So i experienced those realized the law is one way to create change, and i wanted to create change and remove barrier for peeve with disabilities and my own personal story was discrimination and struggle and inspire he to become an attorney. The book is labin, the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. The first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School . That is what was that experience like . We had a lot of unknowns. I couldnt reach out to another deafblind harvard law graduate and ask them, how did you do this . How did you too oral arguments, take care of exams. I had to figure a lot of it out, and it actually started way back in elementary school, when i had to learn to advocate for my needs and to navigate the school system. One of my early chapters in