I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
AIMEE MULLINSBelief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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