Broadening Our Definition Of Ability

Aimee Mullins is an athlete and actor. She was born with a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her lower legs. In this Ted Talks podcast, Aimee Mullins helps us begin to understand the need to broaden our definition of ability.


"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 says. Listen to her entire talk below.

Conversation: Have you ever looked up the definition of disability before? How is it defined in the dictionary that you use? Does the dictionary definition fit for you? If not, which words would you like to see eliminated? Which would you like to see added? Please submit your comments below.



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