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.
AIMEE MULLINSWe 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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 haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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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’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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