I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSIt’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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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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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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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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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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