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 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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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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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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 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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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