I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
AIMEE MULLINSHalf of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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 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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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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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