If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

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.

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. 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.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.