“People have this weird sense of entitlement over your body if you’re disabled. Like they feel that they can say anything, they feel they can ask anything. And as someone who is always making mental calculations into how I’m being perceived and how I’m coming off, it really blows my mind that people just have no shame and just do whatever they want and say whatever they want, without any kind of thinking.”

“It’s always like, yeah. I don’t want to play teacher today. Why is the onus always on me to educate but it like, kind of is?”

Ryan O’Connell – Crip Times, February, 2021

Ryan O’Connell is the American writer, actor, director, comedian behind Netflix series Special.

He’s author of Just By Looking at Him and I’m Special and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves.