People Presume My Disability Has To Do

When I Watch Mad Men And I See The Patronising Attitudes To Women That Are So Shocking For All Of Us To Watch Now, I Feel That I've Lived And See The Same Evolution In This Regard Around Disability.

The Pentagon Isn't A Place That Champions Individuality And Innovation.

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.

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...it Is Our Humanity, And All The Potential Within It That Makes Us Beautiful.

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.'