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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.
Aimee Mullins
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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. 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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