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Ryan O'Connell is an American writer, actor and producer.

Early life
O'Connell grew up in Ventura, California. He has cerebral palsy. At age 20, he moved to New York City to study at the New School. He got hit by a car and people assumed that his limp came from this accident. He did not correct them and hid his CP from everyone. He then started to write articles for Thought Catalog. His articles were noticed by book agents and he signed a contract with Simon & Schuster to write a coffee table book. Instead, he decided to write about cerebral palsy.

Career
When writing his book, O'Connell also started writing for MTV's TV series Awkward. and moved to Los Angeles. In 2015, when the series' second season aired, his book I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves was published. Jim Parsons noticed it and decided turn it into a TV series which he would co-produce. He later worked as a screenwriter for Daytime Divas and Will & Grace.

Special was released on Netflix in April 2019. O'Connell is credited as executive producer, writer and actor. He portrays the main character, Ryan Kayes, who is based on himself. He's a gay man with cerebral palsy who starts to work as an unpaid intern at Eggwoke. The first season, which consists of eight episodes of approximately fifteen minutes, received mostly good reviews, having a 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes.