NOW a NETFLIX series entitled Special from Executive Producer JIM PARSONS starring RYAN OâCONNELL as himself.
From the beloved blogger turned voice of an online generation, an unforgettable and hilarious memoir-meets-manifesto exploring what it means to be a millennial gay man living with cerebral palsy, which VICE calls âa younger, gay version of Mary Karr's Lit.â
People are obsessed with Ryan OâConnellâs blogs. With tens of thousands reading his pieces on Thought Catalog and Vice, watching his videos on YouTube, and hanging on to each and every #dark tweet, Ryan has established himself as a unique young voice whoâs not afraid to dole out some real talk. Heâs that candid, snarky friend you consult when you fear youâre spending too much time falling down virtual k-holes stalking your ex on Facebook or when youâve made the all-too-common mistake of befriending a psycho while wasted at last nightâs party and need to find a way to get rid of them the next morning. But Ryan didnât always have the answers to these modern-day dilemmas. Growing up gay and disabled with cerebral palsy, he constantly felt like he was one step behind everybody else. Then the rude curveball known as your twenties happened and things got even more confusing.
Ryan spent years as a Millennial clichĂ©: he had dead-end internships; dabbled in unemployment; worked in his pajamas as a blogger; communicated mostly via text; looked for love online; spent hundreds on ânecessaryâ items, like candles, while claiming to have no money; and even descended into aimless pill-popping. But through extensive trial and error, Ryan eventually figured out how to take his life from bleak to chic and began limping towards adulthood.
Sharp and entertaining, Iâm Special will educate twentysomethings (or other adolescents-at-heart) on what NOT to do if they ever want to become happy fully functioning grown-ups with a 401k and a dog.
