Publisher's Synopsis
Travis shares how obsessions took over his life after high school. People with autism tend to fixate on something and become more obsessed than normal with it and this causes them a lot of self-destruction in other areas of their lives. Sometimes people with autism develop a special interest in something and a special interest can sometimes be unhealthy for people with autism that fixate often. While people with autism are more likely to obsess over things than others it does not mean that every single obsession is a bad thing or is something destructive. Some obsessions and fixations are good like for Travis his obsession in middle and high school was playing the trombone in the band and jazz band. He became really good at playing the trombone because his obsession caused him to fixate on it and really learn how to play it. Then there are the unhealthy obsessions that come along with hearing voices and having hallucinations. They are girls and breasts for Travis. As an adult that is all he can think about and it has gotten so bad that he is unable to even begin to function in other areas of his life. Every time Travis gets a job he fails at it and ends up quitting because he does not know how to talk to women. Travis' adult obsessions are not healthy for him or others around him. Travis's adult obsession caused him to lose his trombone and music career because he could not even focus on playing the trombone anymore due to constantly obsessing over women and their breasts. This book will show you how quickly obsessions can destroy someone's life and make it hard for them to function. In a way, you might say that these obsessions can kill a person or at least take the life away from the person we knew before the obsessions and voices started. This is a great book for people wanting to learn more about autism fixations and special interests, and obsessions in general. Here is an excerpt from the book. "For me the obsessions I think are a combination of two things. I think the first thing going on is that I am very obsessed and fixate on things. That happens naturally for me and it makes it very hard for me to focus on other areas of life when I am stuck on this one thing trying to learn and figure it out. I have been stuck on women and their breasts for many years now since I was 21 years old. I have been trying to figure out how to have a romantic relationship with a woman. Because of my fixation I put so much time and energy into building a relationship with a woman that I forget about other areas of my life and other areas of my life tend to fall apart because of my obsession."
