Although I was born blind from birth. I was raised by a family
that would not allow me to use my vision as an
excuse for anything. My first cross country meet
in high school, I got lost. And you know, as a high schooler, it's incredibly embarrassing, but for me, it's a great life lesson. I didn't give up. After that first race getting lost, I would show up about an hour early before every other cross country race. And I would literally, walk the
track with one of my coaches so I could memorize the 3.1 mile distance. So I was not gonna get lost again. I think the hardest part growing up was not making friends per se, but it's all those other people
that would ask questions, like, you know, "What
happened to your hand?" It wasn't until after
high school into college, when I realized, hey, why am I trying to cover this up, right? Like I am who I am and that's okay. And it's okay to be a
person with a disability, but I didn't want that
to define who I was. I still run, I play tennis. I actually took up boxing recently, which is a lot of fun. I am Liz. I'm a volunteer. I'm a mother. I'm a lover. I can be those things, but also somebody with a disability. Neurodiversity is a really
big part of my family. My husband, my son and I are all autistic. I was actually diagnosed with autism during my time at ServiceNow. And it's because of the
inclusive nature of working here and people talking about
bringing your true self to work, that I felt able to
out myself as autistic. This has been an incredible company as far as being welcoming to me, as far as my disability and
just supportive in my career. I ultimately became the Co-Chair of our Peoples with Disability
Employee Belonging Group. So that has been incredibly rewarding. We can do most anything that people without disabilities can do just in a different way. For an example, I lift weights, lifting weights requires movements and a hand to hold a weight. But instead I have straps
and still do the same workout that everybody else can do. For years, people have been saying, you know, something wrong with you, Sarah. You need to take these pills
and need to take that pill. You need to speak to this therapist. You need to go see this person. You need to have this brain scan. This is who I am. We're all human. We all have our goals. What we wanna be in life. Some of us have different obstacles that we may have to overcome. At the end of the day, we're far more the same
than we are different.