And I always will.'įor HIV-positive men, having children can be a costly and difficult procedure. That's what really crushed me the most, because I've always wanted kids. 'Because of the fact that I couldn't have kids. 'Not because of the fact that I was positive,' he said. He had just started to get his life back on track, he said, when he found out he was HIV positive. He started to cry and called his cousin who bought him a plane ticket home to Georgia.
ATLANTA – Ryan Peterson's first low point happened in California in 2011 when he woke up on the roof of a house he didn't recognize, still high, after being awake for what he says was around five days.