People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
AIMEE MULLINSPamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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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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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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