I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINSTruthfully, 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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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I’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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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