At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
Aimee MullinsI hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
Aimee MullinsIf 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...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
Aimee MullinsI'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
Aimee MullinsThereโs an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not Iโm disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability Iโve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
Aimee Mullins