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“Our language hasn’t caught up with our change in society.”

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“I was born into a world thinking that there’s nothing going for me”

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It’s not about the words. It’s what we believe when we name them w these words. There’s a value behind the words that one else will understand except for you

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“Our language hasn’t caught up with our change in society yet” “adversity isn’t an obstacle we need to get around- it is a part of my life”

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“Our language affects our thinking and how we view the world”

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“And I have to wonder today to what extent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.”

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“Adversity is a part of life.”

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“Our langue won’t let us improve where we want to be in our society.”

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I had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed

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The doctor said one word and after that she started to focus more on physical therapy he included something she liked into something she hated and it changed her perspective without her knowing

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It’s not about the words. It’s what we believe when we name them w these words. There’s a value behind the words that one else will understand except for you

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So, it's not just about the words. It's what we believe about people when we name them with these words. It's about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values

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There is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you're going to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it

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“It's not just about the words, it’s what we believe about people when we name them with these words.” “I think the greatest adversity that we've created for ourselves is this idea of normalcy.” “I think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spirit that's been crushed doesn't have hope, it doesn't see beauty, it no longer has our natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine”

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“I was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but I'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and I had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.”

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The doctor said one word and after that she started to focus more on physical therapy he included something she liked into something she hated and it changed her perspective without her knowing

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The doctor said one word and after that she started to focus more on physical therapy he included something she liked into something she hated and it changed her perspective without her knowing

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The doctor said one word and after that she started to focus more on physical therapy he included something she liked into something she hated and it changed her perspective without her knowing

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"I had to give this prognosis to your parents that you would never walk, and you would never have the kind of mobility that other kids have or any kind of life of independence, and you've been making liar out of me ever since."

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The doctor said one word and after that she started to focus more on physical therapy he included something she liked into something she hated and it changed her perspective without her knowing

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“I had to give this prognosis to your parents that you would never walk, and you would never have the kind of mobility that other kids have or any kind of life of independence, and you've been making liar out of me ever since.”

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“In our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the expected quality of their life, we have to make sure that we don't put the first brick in a wall that will actually disable someone. Perhaps the existing model of only looking at what is broken in you and how do we fix it, serves to be more disabling to the individual than the pathology itself.”

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“So, it's not just about the words. It's what we believe about people when we name them with these words. It's about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. Our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people.”

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“There is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you're going to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it.”

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“I think the greatest adversity that we've created for ourselves is this idea of normalcy. Now, who's normal? There's no normal. There's common, there's typical.”

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“We can re-imagine adversity as something more than just tough times. Maybe we can see it as change. Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.”