Finding Autism in Mental Illness

After being diagnosed with Autism Travis loses his autism to a devastating mental illness schizophrenia. After spending years trying to find the right medications and treatments for schizophrenia he finally gets his mental illness under control. It is only then that he can truly look into himself and see the autism as part of who he is and a blessing that will have an everlasting impact on him. After being diagnosed with autism Travis is diagnosed with Schizophrenia two years later. For ten years his life was a roller coaster of up and downs as he tried to figure out what he thought was autism but really it was schizophrenia. Travis tries to understand all of his voices and visions and how they are related to autism but in the end he finds out they were not really related to autism at all. This book is a first hand demonstration of how autism can easily become lost in mental illness. Travis will show you how his autism became lost in his schizophrenia and then show you the step by step process he took to re-finding his autism so that he could get his life back. This is an emotional first-hand account of a young man struggling to find himself through his mental illness and autism. As he begins to recover from schizophrenia Travis begins to develop an amazing life for himself as a young man with autism spectrum disorder.