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.
AIMEE MULLINSYou 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’?
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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