If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
AIMEE MULLINSIf you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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