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I was born without arms and legs. I'm 3 foot 6. I want to share my story with families that have
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children born like me. Putting a smile on someone's face can't even explain the feeling. It's just
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it's just amazing. Being different is awesome. My name is Ryan. I'm 40 years old. I'm a husband, father, and I was born with a disability called
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congenital limb deficiency that made me born without arms and legs. Do you want hot sauce for yours, Ray
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Yes, please. All right, you're better at this thing, man. Actually, I have arms and legs, but they're much shorter
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This is for my cooking show, Cooking with No Hands. The kind of questions I get always range from, like, how do you drive
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How do you eat? How do you have children? And, I mean, just any question you can think of
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How do you go to the bathroom? And everybody's like, oh, doesn't that bother you
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Isn't that annoying? The hardest thing about living with no arms and legs is that people see me without arms and legs
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I don't want you to look at me as someone with no arms and legs. I want you to look at me as my friend, my colleague
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or some really cool guy that has a sweet sneaker collection. Hey, let's start on a different pancake
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When I was first born, the doctors took me away from my parents
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and my mom asked the doctors like where's my son at and they said there's been a problem and we wanted to talk to you about this before we bring him in
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here and she said no please bring my son in right away and they said well your son was born without arms and legs and before we give him to you we want you
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to know that it's okay if you don't want to keep him. And my mom said, what are you talking about
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That my son bring my son now They said that Ryan will never have a regular job or be able to go to school or drive a wheelchair
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He'll never be able to drive a car. He'll never be able to have a family
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So when somebody tells me I can't do something, that's just that fire, that fuel to make sure I can do it
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So, how'd you do, Ry? I was sweating. I met my wife when I was 20 years old
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What are you working on? I did this one earlier. Oh, that's sweet. I saw you post that
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When I first met Ryan, I didn't see him as being different
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We just connected. We just kind of hit it off right away, and that was it
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My kids are my life. Like everything I do, I do for them
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How he moves through life and the way that he was born is so natural for us
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We just see him as our dad. He's taught us so many different things that other fathers might not teach us
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You can't go around and complain about the little things that other people might be able
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to do. He really changes your outlook on life. Alexa, turn on office
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So this is my office where I work at home, work on stuff for social media
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Started collecting shoes when I was a kid. Luckily, they don't get dirty because I don't walk on the ground and my feet haven't grown
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So I've been able to save a bunch since I was young. A few years ago, I was at work and someone
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ran up to me and I said hey my cousin wife is having a baby And she they just found out that she going to be born without arms Would you mind meeting with her before the baby born And if you don wanna do it I completely understand And I said of course I would love to
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Hey, what's up? We going up this way? Hey! Hey! How you doing
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Hi guys! We found out about Ryan when I was pregnant. We were so excited to meet his family because there was so much unknown
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Say hi. Can you tell him hi? Boo! If you want to go upstairs, then what did you say
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Yes! Gabriela, she just turned two in August, and she was born with no arms and shortened legs
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Nothing seems to stop her. I mean, she gets around the house as much as anybody else can
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She plays with her toys that she has. Clay, I want to dance with somebody
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Let's build it up. You like the song? I find it. Yay
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Our youngest son, Owen, is three and a half, and he was born with congenital limb differences affecting all four of his limbs
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Don't you do it. Don't do it. For Owen to even see a role model just like himself
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Get it. Every time Ryan's here, you know, it lights up Owen
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You're gonna be so much fun. Okay, pull him right here. Are you gonna knock it over
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Go Go Who going to win Oh shoot Ah I won Ah You won
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When I was younger and growing up my parents didn't know anybody that was born like me
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So I just love that I'm able to meet kids that are born like me and maybe teach them
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a few things that I've learned. Ryan's just an invaluable person to us
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And they give me pizza, so it's really good. Yeah. Say bye, Ryan
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Bye. Boom. Love you. Love you. Today was amazing. We built some blocks, walls, and we knocked them down
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Just like we're going to do every day in our life. We're going to face some challenges. We're going to build them up, and we're going to knock them down
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It was a comfort to meet somebody who was never letting anything stop him
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There's a saying, you know, failure is not an option. My saying is failure is a must
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You can't learn anything in life unless you fail at it. You try and you fail
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Say bye. Say love you. When I sit back and think about all the adversity I faced
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and everything that I've had to deal with, I'm definitely proud of myself
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Fighting through all those things and being who I am today