Confidence Is The Sexiest Thing A Woman

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.

Everyone Is Really Afraid Of Getting Out There And Not Being Good. That's The Challenge: To Be Afraid And Know People Are Staring At You And Know You Might Not Do All That Well, But You Do It Anyway. What Singles Out The Successful Athlete From The Ones Who Never Make It Past A Plateau, It That Successful Athletes Risk Failure, Even Though They Are Terrified.

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.

I Think That Everyone Has Something About Themselves That They Feel Is Their Weakness... Their 'disability.' And I'm Certain We All Have One, Because I Think Of A Disability As Being Anything Which Undermines Our Belief And Confidence In Our Own Abilities.

Pamela Anderson Has More Prosthetic In Her Body Than I Do. Nobody Calls Her Disabled.