Eleven years ago, she was diagnosed with autism. Eight years ago, doctors told her that she could not compete academically. But six months ago, Kymera Mitchell received her first of many college acceptance letters.
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“Don’t worry about anyone that tells you that you can’t do anything, because you can,” Mitchell told the Tribune.This college application season, Mitchell was rewarded with acceptances from several of the nation’s most selective HBCUs, such as Howard University and Hampton University, along with many Chicagoschools, such as DePaul University, Loyola University and School of the Art Institute.
Kalaveeta Mitchell recalls knowing in her daughter’s early childhood that she was capable of much more than what doctors predicted. Coming home from school, Kymera Mitchell would “rattle off” everything that she learned, walking her mother through the intricacies of the math and reading that she had explored during the day.
“I spent the better part of the last 14 years battling CPS, going into due process constantly. Really just fighting for all the support that she was supposed to have, you know, required under the law,” her mother recalled. “Because a lot of times they were trying to dumb her down to other students in her class who were performing not as high as she was.”
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