I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

This hilarious part-memoir, part-manifesto reveals what sets apart the latest generation of young people coming of age in an all-wired, overeducated, and underemployed world.

People are obsessed with Ryan Oâ€™Connellâ€™s 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 whoâ€™s not afraid to dole out some real talk. Heâ€™s that candid, snarky friend you consult when you fear youâ€™re spending too much time falling down virtual k-holes stalking your ex on Facebook or when youâ€™ve made the all-too-common mistake of befriending a psycho while wasted at last nightâ€™s party and need to find a way to get rid of them the next morning. But Ryan didnâ€™t 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 clichÃ©: 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 â€œnecessaryâ€ 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, Iâ€™m 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-06-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-06-02
Format	Kindle eBook

I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

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