[10] The book inspired the BBC drama Hen Night, which Ryan created with Vici Wreford-Sinnott.
[14] Ryan won the Royal National Institute of Blind People media impact award in 2019.
[2] Ryan was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022, due in combination to her authorship of Crippled and her writing for The Guardian.
[9][18] Due to her disability, Ryan was unable to travel for a book tour, so she spoke at online events.
For a television interview about her book, she declined a producer's suggestion that she be filmed performing tasks around her house, as she did not think this would have been asked were she not disabled.