A little bit of information from Wikipedia: Aimee Mullins is an American athlete, actress and fashion model who first became famous for her athletic accomplishments. She was born with a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs below the knee at the age of one year. She has also become one of the most prominent thinkers on the topic of prosthetic innovation.
In this video Aimee tells us about a meeting she had with approximately 300 children, ages 6-8, at a children’s museum. She brought with her a bag of her artificial legs and put them all out on a table. She asked the adults that come with the kids not to enter the room for a few minutes so that she could speak with the children without them being inhibited by the presence of their parents and teachers. Aimee knew that kids are usually naturally curious and like to explore everything that they are not familiar with.
They initially rushed into the room, descending to the table and began to poke, prod, wiggle toes and put their full weight on the sprinting legs to see what would happen. Aimee then asked the children to help her to think of an animal or a character whose legs she could use to jump over a two- or three-story house.
They immediately suggested to her many possible things such as a kangaroo, a frog and several different movie and cartoon superheroes. The purpose of this meeting was to give the children an opportunity to look at Aimee and to see her as a “superabled” rather than disabled as they have traditionally been trained to consider this type of person by adults.
