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