Travis: 703 books

Travis shares about his experiences with receiving help through autism services offered to him. He the effects of years of masking his autism and hiding who he truly is. He shares some of his experiences with applied behavior analysis as an adult. He talks about how he was ridiculed by staff and others...

Travis describes a life torn from reality where third party voices control you. They try to influence your ever decision and action. Auditory and visual hallucinations complicate his daily life and cause simple tasks like waking up and showering to be a hundred times more challenging for him than...

So much is wondered about how and when to self-disclose to others when you are autistic. Travis shares how he chooses the how and when to self-disclose his Asperger Syndrome to others he meets. Travis says the decision is context driven and changes from person to person. Travis weighs the pros and...

Travis discusses the president elect Trump's plan to study vaccines effect and role in autism yet again.Travis applauds Trump's effort to bring autism mainstream but wishes that federal funding could be spent on support services to improve the lives of people with autism and mental illness as opposed...

Travis shares his desires for being a real person. Voices and hallucinations plague Travis and tell him he is not real because he is autistic. Travis relies on his one neurotypical best friend to keep him real and fight the voices. Voices are real to Travis and he shares how difficult it is to take...

Travis shares what it is like to be on the manic side of Bi-Polar. Up all night and unable to sleep Travis wrote this book to help educate others on what Bi-Polar is like. When Travis is manic he can stay awake for a couple days at a time and do all kinds of energetic things. Then when the wall hits...

Travis shares how he learned to challenge his beliefs and fixations. Autistic people tend to fixate on things. Travis learned he had choices to make and could choose not only to change his beliefs but change how he spent time focusing on his fixations. Travis made positive changing that have given...

Making friends when you have autism because you have such an obsessive mind. It is hard to do things in moderation when you have autism. Travis shares some useful tips and strategies for teaching children and teenagers with autism how to learn the step by step process of making friends without obsessing...

In this powerful memoir, former bicycle messenger and acclaimed author of The Immortal Class recounts his difficult journey to literacy. A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man’s effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, this book is also a manifesto about the...

Travis shares the ups and downs of being Bi-Polar. He balances Bi-Polar with having Schizophrenia to live one of the most enjoyable lives a person with mental illness can lead. Travis shares what it is like to be depressed and low for days then all of a sudden have the switch flipped to being manic...

This is a story about how a shy man named Travis conquered social anxiety to become a professional bingo caller. He put himself out there and now helps oversee bingo for several people two nights per week. Follow along as Travis transforms his life socially through gaining confidence and self-esteem...

Travis falls in love for the first time only to find out the woman of his dreams is on a rebound relationship. Everything is going fine at the beginning and then about two months into the relationship Travis learns that his crush no longer wants to be in a relationship with him. Devastated Travis...

Come inside the mind and world of Travis. Travis lives with autism among many other things. Experience the world from the autistic perspective through his eyes. Learn about what it is like to go through puberty with autism. Learn how Travis escapes into his imagination to create a make-believe world...

Travis has a chance to redeem himself after struggling with years of mental illness that led to him having a negative attitude toward autism. Thinking he could never get a girlfriend having autism he wanted to cure his autism. After help from a friend with a Sonrise program to challenge his beliefs...