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 MULLINSI feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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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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