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Aimee Mullins: The Opportunity of Adversity(2009)

Athlete, model, and actor Aimee Mullins, a double below-knee amputee, takes apart the language of disability itself, starting from a thesaurus entry that lists "disabled" beside words like "useless" and "crippled." She makes a case for adversity as a doorway to human potential rather than a deficit to be pitied. A foundational talk on the power of how we name disabled lives. Full transcript on TED.com.