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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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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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