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Aimee Mullins, born on July 20, 1976, is an accomplished athlete known for her achievements in track and field and the fashion industry. She has gained recognition for her exceptional performance in Paralympic sports and has become a symbol of determination and resilience.

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

Facts Opinion Objectives Subjective Disabled Amputees

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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.”

Children Grows Felt Community Growing Up Identity Disability Ownership Disabled Disabled Children

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“I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' 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.'”

Ifs Wells Said Asking Hopefully Journalist Knees Call Me Disabled Handicapped Amputees

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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.”

Way Whole Hate I Hate Disabled Handicapped

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“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.”

Body Disabled Prosthetics

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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. 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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“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'?”

Thinking Body Half Hollywood Noses Breasts Disability Limbs Disabled Enhancement Prosthetics

Author:Aimee Mullins

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Born: July 20, 1976
Known for: Athlete
Quotes: 50

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