Aria Mia Loberti was born in the 1990s with achromatopsia, a condition that renders her with very poor vision, color blindness, and hypersensitivity to light. Loberti grew up in Johnston, Rhode Island in what she told Marie Claire was a "lower-middle-class family."
Loberti grew up very much aware of the discrimination those with disabilities face. As a young girl, she struggled to imagine herself fulfilling her dreams. Her school didn't provide adequate support for her, so she ended up being homeschooled for most of elementary and high school.
"I've been thinking a lot about seven-year-old Aria, who used to dream about getting an equitable education, having a black Lab guide dog, wearing a blazer jacket like her dad, and being on stage — who used to wish everyday that someday she'd make it to college, where she wouldn't have to fight for her right to an education, where she'd find a community," she wrote on Instagram in 2018. She didn't know it then, but all of those dreams would one day come true.
