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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.

Aimee Mullins

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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Curious Explore Feel Really Something Take
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Belief Disability Everyone Feel Something Thinking Weakness
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Amputee Asking Challenge Disable Handicap Journalist Knee Physical
Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Afraid Challenge Everyone Getting Good Motivation Softball Sport
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
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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Awful Family Given Leg Mode More Mother Nature Perfect
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 have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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Advantage Bring Girl Learn Overlook Player Softball
With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Everything Mean Model
Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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Beautiful Besides Kissing Out Sleep Water
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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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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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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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Adversity Ground Life Living Need Obstacle Order Resume
It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Alleviating Balance Breathing Controlling Stress
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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Being Case Disability Insecurity People Presume Struggle
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Believe Body Confidence Part Sexy

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