In her speech A Whisper of Aids, Mary Fisher uses a very clever method of establishing credibility with her audience. When Fisher lists the reasons she was not a risk for the disease that she contracted she establishes with the audience that she is one of them. This is important because of the conservative audience she is speaking to. Up until this point most of the people in the audience would have said that people who got HIV were not like them in order to distance themselves for the disease and create a false sense of security. If someone who represented the majority of people who had AIDS at this time had spoken with this audience they would not have listened. In fact, most would have dismissed the person because they were a hemophiliac,