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In this book Travis describes to the reader what living with schizophrenia and autism is like. Follow Travis as he shares about his hallucinations, voices, and delusions. Travis shares how television characters and news anchors talk to him. He thinks they have a special message to deliver to him. Travis also talks about having to punish himself because the voices say he is not a real person. Travis started having psychotic episodes at the age of 19. He talks about how everywhere he goes the voices and hallucinations follow him. Travis went from college to college trying to find a place where the voices and hallucinations could not find him and now he travels from job to job trying to get away from them. The voices sometimes tell Travis if he leaves his house he will be punished for having autism. Travis shares how he has delusions and performs operations on himself that a doctor tells him to do. He shares how it is really difficult to tell the difference between reality and make believe. Travis lives in a different world than most of us do and he shares what his world is like in this amazing read. Travis talks about how he had relationships with people he saw on television shows and shares with the reader what they talked about and said. This book is a valuable tool for anyone wanting to learn more about what living with autism and schizophrenia would be like. Travis shares that both autism and schizophrenia make social relationships hard for him. He shares how he is able to stay positive even amongst all of his challenges in this book. Here is an excerpt from the book. Was I really a fake person? I remember asking myself on the long bus ride home from Florida. By the time we had returned to campus from Florida there were many new clicks and groups that formed from the spring tour and there were several couples who started talking over spring tour and ended up getting into a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship by the time we got back to school. In a lot of cases my life has been like watching a movie while sitting in a room with a glass window. On the other side were the actors or other people I was trying to interact with and then on the side I was on it was just me with glass walls all around me. It was very frustrating for me because I have spent years and years trying to learn how to find a door or window to open so I could get out of the glass trap. That following fall would be my last semester at Indiana Wesleyan. My condition was getting worse and I struggled with everything. I was even beginning to fail my music classes because I could not concentrate or focus on my studies. My trombone playing continued to get worse because I was obsessing over the voices I was hearing and hallucinations I was having. Can you imagine trying to play your instrument when either another voice or person is yelling in your ear or the trombone itself starts talking to you? What would that be like?

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