My Aspie Special Interest Is My Best Friend

By Travis Breeding

Learn how some of Travis' special interests with Asperger Syndrome quickly became his best friends who helped him cope through times of loneliness, sadness, and depression from social isolation. This book examines the role of the special interest for someone with autism and gives useful tips on how to understand a special interest and what it means. Learn about Travis' special interests here as you read.

Travis shares how special interests modify over time. What started as an interest in toys like Thomas the Train turned into an interest in sports. Then as he got older he started playing trombone and joined the band in school. This quickly became a special interest to him. As Travis got older he developed more complex special interests that ranged from sexuality to a specific special interest in another person.

In this book Travis explains how the special interests and his ability to escape into imagination and create a make-believe world helped him cope with school. Travis wanted everyone to know about his special interests but sometimes it was inappropriate to tell people. This book also shares about the similarities and differences between a special interest, an Autism fixation, and obsessions.

If you are wanting to learn more about what the special interest means to someone on the Autism Spectrum this is a great book to add to your collection. Not only will you learn a lot about special interests but you will also see their role in social relationships and how they help blossom and maintain friendships.

Sometimes special interests are inappropriate and need modified into something more appropriate. Travis talks about how he modifies some of his special interests into more appropriate ones and gives some ideas on how to do so successfully. If you have ever wondered why your child or someone you know with autism seems obsessively interested in something read this book to learn more about why this could be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Breeding Publishing
• Release date: Jun 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463774342

Travis Breeding

Travis is an author from Huntington Indiana how enjoys entertaining and educating through words. He enjoys telling a story and taking it from his mind to paper. He has authored several books on autism, mental illness, schizophrenia, and disability issues. He continues to write about those issues but also explores some fiction writing as well. Travis has a loving family and enjoys spending time with friends and family. He loves to play bingo and meet new people. One day Travis hopes to start a family of his own and give them so much love. Travis would like to thank his readers for supporting him on his journey of becoming an author. He could not have done it without you. If you would like to get in touch with Travis please email him at tbreedauthoratgmaildotcom,

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My Aspie Special Interest Is My Best Friend

Travis Breeding

Published by Travis Breeding at Smashwords

Copyright 2018 Travis Breeding

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Contents

My Aspie Special Interest Is My Best Friend

About the Author

My Aspie Special Interest Is My Best Friend

Sometimes I like things more so than others. People with autism often have what is referred to as a special interest. This is an intense interest that means I like a certain thing or object more so than anything else in life.

Some people say this is an obsession. For me it is an intense interest and for me the special interest helps me with a lot of things. It is so much more than just something I like. It is also something I use to help me cope with social situations and get through each day.

Often, I find myself living in a make-believe world where this special interest helps me get through life. In the past special interest have been way more than interests to me as they have even been something that I have considered to be my best friend.

My special interest has shifted from time to time. As a kid it was a toy or something like Thomas the Train. Then as I got older my special interest shifted to something like sports and mainly basketball.

There was a time when I was a kid almost a teenager when I could have given you every single basketball statistic there was. I knew who had won all the basketball championships for the past thirty years and knew so much about every single player.

I knew all of this because I was extremely interested in the sport. It gave me something to look forward to and be passionate about. I did not have a lot of other social things going on for me at the time so this obsession with basketball was what got me through some lonely times as a child.

I used to sit and watch basketball consistently with my father. We enjoyed watching some of our favorite teams. One of our favorite teams was the Boston Celtics.

The special interest was my best friend at a time and place where friendships in real life were hard to come by. Yet, I had created this make-believe imaginary world to help me cope with being so lonely in which basketball was my best friend.

Then as I got older I started playing trombone in the band. I was in sixth grade when I begun to play the trombone. By seventh grade I had been practicing long enough that I started to get good at it.