I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSYou 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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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It’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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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