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Marine is from Woodbury, New Jersey and graduated from Woodbury Junior-Senior High School in 2005. [2] [3] She was born with symbrachydactyly, a congenital condition that left her without a right forearm. [4]
Acrotomophilia (from the Greek ἀκρότομος "having the top cut off"; from ἄκρον akron "extremity" and --τομος-tomos from τέμνω temno "I cut" and φιλία philia "love") is a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees.
Amy Palmiero-Winters (born August 18, 1972) is a below-knee amputee, long-distance runner, and triathlete. She holds eleven world records in various events. In 2010, she was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States and the ESPN ESPY Award as the top female athlete with a disability in the world.
These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her drums as hard or fast as she wants.
A woman who is missing part of her arm became fed up with a lack of amputee representation in media, so she decided to create her own — and the result has warmed the hearts of thousands.
Unfortunately, Ashley Brady, a 26-year-old amputee in Ohio had to deal with an unpleasant woman who had parked in a handicapped spot. A note left on Brady's windshield noted in part , "Hey handicap!
Kellie Lim, a triple amputee due to bacterial meningitis at age 8, [1] graduated near the top of her class at UCLA medical school in 2007 after having been given only a 15% chance of survival. [2] Lim was born in Michigan and raised by her blind mother, Sandy Lim, in Detroit . [ 3 ]
An eight-year-old amputee from Lynnfield, Massachusetts, has been fitted with a custom-made Iron Man prosthetic, manufactured by Open Bionics.Footage shows eight-year-old Sam Halpern testing out ...