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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 left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as 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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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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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.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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