I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINSIt is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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It’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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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