Meet Cienna Ditri once and you might think she has it all figured out, confident and composed, always in motion. She travels, surfs, and leads a nonprofit with ease. What looks effortless, though, took years to build.

At eight years old, after a ballet class, Sarah Todd Hammer suddenly lost strength in her arms. By the next morning, she was paralyzed from the neck down — her childhood changed in an instant.

Annie Segarra has spent most of her life being misread. As a child, her physical limitations were seen as laziness. Her neurodivergence went undiagnosed.