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Before the Paralympic movement I definitely didn't like wearing shorts because people would stare at me.Collection: Jessica
I always loved the water. It's a place I can just take off these heavy prosthetics and just jump in the water and feel no different.Collection: Jessica
It's so nice to go to a friend's house and sleep over, stay up as late as I want.Collection: Jessica
It's really awesome to come back home and be recognized for the hard work.Collection: Jessica
Every Sunday after church we would go over to my grandparents' house and spend time with them and they had a pool in their backyard, and I would like eat as fast as I could just so I could be the first one in the pool. And then I would be the last one out.Collection: Jessica
I remember being really angry. I remember not wanting anything to do with God, and I was going in for surgeries every three months. And I mean, all I ever heard was God made me this way and I was like, 'Hmm, I don't think I like that.'Collection: Jessica
My identity is in Christ, and I really hope that I show that with just my character, the way that I do things on the pool deck.Collection: Jessica
I don't mind if adults stare. They should really know about my physical situation.Collection: Jessica
Younger kids will sometimes tease me, and that bothers me a little, but eventually I don't care.Collection: Jessica
If you're not in the right classification, you're basically stealing funding and opportunities from other people. This is not the NFL. There's only so much money to go around.Collection: Jessica
The Paralympics have given me so much, and I know what this sport can do for a young kid when it's at its best.Collection: Jessica
Growing up, I was one of those energetic kids who never sat still.Collection: Jessica
At age 4 I started in gymnastics and used that as an outlet for my endless energy for several years.Collection: Jessica
At 18 months old, both of my lower legs were amputated so I could be fitted with prosthetic legs and learn to walk.Collection: Jessica
It's important that people can be themselves and live a normal life that's not defined by a disability.Collection: Jessica
I've been a bilateral amputee since birth and don't know anything else.Collection: Jessica
I have never viewed myself as disabled.Collection: Jessica
Putting on shoes with my prosthetic legs is still hard for me, but at the end of the day, I'm just putting on really tall shoes.Collection: Jessica
I always loved pretending I was a fish or a mermaid while swimming in my grandparents' pool.Collection: Jessica
In 2018 I really hurt my back, my lower back, and it's been a couple of years where we finally found out that I have an extra vertebra in my back.Collection: Jessica
There was a time in 2008 where no one really wanted to talk to the Paralympic athletes.Collection: Jessica
There's something about it to me, the feeling of the water, and feeling, I don't know, equal, and like everyone else. Which is kind of funny because I didn't actually start swimming right away as a sport.Collection: Jessica
I don't have anything to prove.Collection: Jessica
It's never been just about me. It's about my grandparents who used to drive me to swim practice. My dad who - on his one day to sleep in - would take me to swim meets. My mom and my sisters who would massage my aching shoulders when I was little There have been so many people who have believed in me when I didn't believe in myself.Collection: Jessica
The idea that I got to be on a team with Trischa Zorn - as a 12-year-old - is wild to me.Collection: Jessica
I'd love to see the 200s, the 50s, the 400 IM. I would do so many events.Collection: Jessica
There was so much pain. Every time I grew, I had to go back in for a surgery. And I remember just being really, really scared but also, like, knowing exactly what to do. Like as a 3-year-old, I knew to crawl on top of the operating table.Collection: Jessica
I sit down in a chair, and I take off my two heavy little prosthetic legs and I crawl on my knees to the edge of the pool and I just jumped in, and I just instantly loved it.Collection: Jessica
Maybe it's part of being an athlete, but I feel like we're really good, especially in swimming, about just pushing things down and pushing ahead.Collection: Jessica
All of my life, I've loved proving people wrong.Collection: Jessica
Sometimes people look at people with disabilities and there's a moment where they just feel sorry for them.Collection: Jessica
I love swimming, but I love knowing that kids see me as an inspiration.Collection: Jessica
I used to not wear shorts in the summer time. I just wanted to hide it and wear long pants. Then after the Paralympics, I saw how the other athletes handled missing an arm or a leg and they didn't care. That was what I needed to see.Collection: Jessica
I really want to share my story, but also make Paralympics more well known.Collection: Jessica
I think here in the U.S., we have a hard time accepting disabilities. That's why I think it's really good to share and let kids know that its not a disability, it's an ability. You have an ability to inspire others.Collection: Jessica
As soon as we landed in Tokyo, that's when I was like, OK. I really want to bring home a gold medal.'Collection: Jessica
You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.Collection: Jessica
There was a time I used to focus on just being skinny, and now I really think about how can I be strong.Collection: Jessica
I always said, as soon as I stopped loving this sport is when I probably will retire.Collection: Jessica