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.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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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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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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