It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs. Today, better-abled.

There are words we use to describe people whose bodies don't fit the norm.

Disabled, differently abled, handicapped, but why do we assume that being blind or deaf or missing limbs is being worse off?

In this hour, we'll explore the world of the better abled.

Beginning with athlete and fashion model Amy Mullins.

She's the owner of more than a dozen pairs of the most fabulous prosthetic legs you can imagine.

She calls them her superpowers.

The idea of having superpowers refers to a particular bit of enlightenment I experienced amongst a group of, you know, six-year-olds that I had challenged to come up with anything they could imagine, whether it was a cartoon character, a superhero, you know, an animal, anything they could think of that if I wanted to be able to jump over a three-story house,

what kind of legs would you want to build me?

And they were instantaneous in their responses of kangaroos and frogs and Google Gadget

and, you know, all sorts of Japanese anime characters that I wasn't even familiar with yet.

And immediately a boy said, but wait a second, why wouldn't you want to fly too?

And everybody got so excited, including me.

And, you know, for me, the poignancy of that experience was the immediate and palpable shift

in the way that these children would have been trained to see me, a woman who has to wear prosthetic legs every day, as disabled.

That word has a lot of weight to it.

And in that instant, I became somebody who was super able, somebody who had potential in her body that most people don't have.

And we're talking, obviously, theoretically,

with jumping over houses and flying,

but, you know, we're coming closer and closer

to things that 30 years ago were sci-fi TV programs.

We should talk about your running legs,

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