“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.” – Aimee Mullins

It’s 11  : 03 AM on day 1053 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, feed myself boiled egg and  All Bran Flakes for breakfast,        read Judges 12,   publish my Disability of the Day feature and tweet and Facebook about my campaign –  no one made a donation so far today I feel so uncomfortable physically I don’t care much about anything right now in an effort to prevent the chronic constipation that comes with having CP I’ve been eating a lot of vegetables and now because I’ve been eating a lot of vegetables I’m stuck with other digestive issues I just can’t win  I know there are people going through worse things than me but this sucks too.

Yesterday afternoon watching Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity – a Ted Talk by U.S. Paralympic athlete Aimee Mullins about empowering “disabled” people and embracing adversity – I realized Aimee was right society does make people more “disabled” than they truly are by labeling them crippled, handicapped and useless if people kept referring to you as crippled, handicapped and useless would you be motivated to succeed of course not you would probably end up living up to those labels. Watch Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity below: