Emily has that glow around her of like, I'm here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

She walks in room and everyone is like, Wow.

I like her.

Hi, everyone.

This is my house.

I'm Emily Brown, and let's go through it.

What you just heard over there was my cat, and she's going to come with us, hopefully.

There it is.

I can't see.

I'm visually impaired.

I'm blind.

Fully blind, to be exact.

Because I am on the autism spectrum, you don't see that when I sing like I'm in my happy place.

It feels special.

It's peaceful.

It feels like I can be myself.

Sing along, you'll be fine.

I sang for our former president Barack Obama in 2016 at North High School, and it felt so great to actually tell people I can do anything.

If you want to be happy, do what it is that makes you a happy person.

Emily wanted to take dance class when she was younger.

She likes to dance, especially when she gets to make noise with those feet.

But she was told no.

But we also had to wait to a point.

In Emily's development that she was ready to do that.

Believe me.

I understand what discrimination is like.

Like you can't do this.

Well, can I try it?

What things do you believe I can't do?

And then I'll show you my techniques of how I can do stuff.

I have lots of training from the Iowa Department for the Blind in Des Moines that has helped me throughout my 26 years of life.

So when I think of love, especially unconditional love, my mom always comes into my mind because she's always there for me and she has done so much to stick up for me, even through my tough times.

So that's why I love her, the pieces.

And I say thank you not only for adopting me, but for raising me to be who I really am, because I wouldn't be where I'm at if it wasn't for her.

Ready?

There you go.

Grilled cheese!

Okay.

When Emily was a baby, she was a very good baby.

Everyone was saying yes, she has an eye disorder, but they're not telling you the severity of what's going on.

Slowly it starts unfolding into this good baby.

Turns into a very upset baby.

At first it was hard, I will admit.

Like when I was trying to ask for something, I couldn't.

So I threw fits.

I hit myself, threw myself on the ground.

I screamed and cried.

Through a lot of work and a lot of people not giving up on Emily.

She became successful to continue to grow.

Emily ended up graduating a normal high school with a 3.5 GPA.

I'm really proud of Emily.

For all the things that she's accomplished.

She's overcome a lot of issues with even being scared to try new things.

It can be scary.

Let me win.

But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

That's right.

Special Olympics.

We found Miss Amazing.

And it's a pageant for people with special needs.

And then my favorite part is passion presentation.

And it's like a talent portion.

And for me, mine was singing and I did At Last by Etta James.

At last my love has come along.

Emily loves to do pageants.

She loves to sing.

Her heart is to prove to others she has abilities.

I did the Iowa and Illinois Miss Heart of the USA because I wanted to see what it's like doing a pageant with people without special needs.

I'm like, you know what?

It's time to integrate my theme.

You guessed it, dirt track racing.

I always have a huge heart for dirt track racing.

I love the feel of it.

The vibration.

We started with Braille plate drivers, and it's a Braille plate the size of a credit card that's metal.

And it has the name and car number of the person.

And now we have spread across the United States, Australia and Canada with 800 Braille plate drivers for dirt track racing.

I'm very proud of her because she volunteers in lots of ways to give back to the community and shows everyone I care about you.

I'm on a national steering committee for mental health.

It's to help people that have a disability and mental health, including myself, you can tell us what you need.

You matter to us and you're here for a reason.

There's a special college at National Federation for the Blind, and you have to be certified to be a Braille transcriber and then go through to be the Braille proofreader.

I'm hoping to do that soon because then it could improve lots of things for those who are blind.

And I believe in that.

We are here to show the world just because an individual has special needs doesn't mean that you cannot give to others, doesn't mean that they don't have something extremely special to share with the world.

So I'm hoping in the future I want to be a singer and show people my life story.

And I want to tell them how far I came on this journey.

I'm excited to see where this journey goes.