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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Aimee Mullins

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
AIMEE MULLINS

Going Heroine Human Interest Interview Refuse Sport Story Tragic
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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Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
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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Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
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
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Adversity Care Easy Meet Prepare Responsibility Simply Well
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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Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Body Call Celebrity Disabled More
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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Apartment Confident Dance Feel Great Kissing Make Record Rocking Someone
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Athletic Idea Possibility Presume
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
It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Alleviating Balance Breathing Controlling Stress
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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Confront Consistent Definition Describe Disability Real Thinking Truthfully
Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Belted Coaster Constant Down Life Roller Thousand Time Up
I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Around Disability Evolution Feel Lived Regard Some
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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Children Community Disability Felt Growing Identity Ownership Up
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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Cell Feel Home Impact Leave People Phone Tool

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