Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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 is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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