Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
AIMEE MULLINSFor 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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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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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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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