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By elaynaalexandra, Thursday, February 18, 2010, 3 commentsIf you know me in person you know a couple things about me. You know my left leg is smaller and scared, my ankle doesn't left or right and hardly up or down and I limp. If you know me you also know that I love TED talks. If you knew me when I was little I climbed trees with an Illzarov device. If you know me, you know pseudarthrosis has shaped me to who I am. If you have listened to Aimee Mullins on TED then you have head perhaps one of the most incredible people in this world. She was born without fibular bones in both her legs and has amazing prosethics. She is a runner, a speaker, she is an inspiration, she is not disabled. She is beautiful, passionate, she can change her height and has legs you and I would dream for. This is not disability. In fact it is my belief that there are few who are characterized as disabled who are disabled at all. Take a moment look up disability in your thesaurus like Aimee did. Take a moment and think about the person you know who has a different body then you and ask do those words characterize them?
I am not disabled in my mind. I have pain, I can not always walk gracefully like I would like, I can not wear cute strappy sandals but I am not crippled, lame, ineffective, defunct. I am the person I am not in spite of pseudarthrosis but because of it, and for most of my life I have embraced pseudarthoris because I know my life wouldn't have been what it is without it. Right now as I teeter on the edge of something new I am happy for how I have learned to dance with adversity.
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Beautiful!!!!
Beautiful!!!!
~~YOU are Beautiful just as
~~YOU are Beautiful just as you are!!!!!!!
Amazed!
"not crippled, lame, ineffective, defunct." You're damn straight! You are not ANY of those things. You're talented, creative and beautiful. You are also a teacher. I had no idea what pseudarthoris was. . .Well, I still have no idea what it is, but I will soon. (After I click on your link and hit the Google-button!)
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