Antonio Myers was unable to speak as a child.

His family and educational experts did not believe he would ever be able to. Finally, at the age of four, he surprised everyone when he said his first words.

But due to his autism, things were not always easy for Myers as he tried to find schools, and later work environments, that would support his needs. He was put into D.C. Public Schools in 1997, but later his family realized they would have to pay for private special education.

Myers continued forward and made remarkable accomplishments. In seventh grade, he was reading at a 12th-grade level and he was the eighth-grade class president at Ivymount School in Rockville. For high school, he attended the Chelsea School in Hyattsville where he won awards for basketball and track and was valedictorian of his class.

“Also in college, I was able to have the support from the neighborhood churches, they used to feed me and we would fellowship at members’ houses. They were also my major support at that time and I had a grand time at that school,” he said. “In three and a half years I got to really learn each and every life skill and more importantly my true self, self-knowledge and self-mastery.”

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