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.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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