It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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’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.
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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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