I Like That Pilates Compromises The Mind

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'?

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.

Giving Up Is Conceding That Things Will Never Get Better, And That Is Just Not True. Ups And Downs Are A Constant In Life, And I've Been Belted Into That Roller Coaster A Thousand Times.

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.