For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
From Giles Duley
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work.
If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.
To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.
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