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.
AIMEE MULLINSWe all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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