“My Name is Ryan,” a book penned by Beth Brock and her grandson, Ryan Tidwell, a patient at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, has a simple but powerful message from a boy with spina bifida: “My Name is Ryan, I am just like you, but different.” The book grew from a conversation the pair had several years ago in which Ryan told his grandmother about the way other children looked at him. “Ryan was talking about how others react to him and how they were scared of his wheelchair and machines,” Brock said. “He said that when he would go places, they would stare. “I just didn’t want him to experience that anymore. I knew what he was sharing with me was a great message for others, so I started writing and working on how to get his story published.”