The Great Autism Redemption Book I

By Travis Breeding

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 and change his way of thinking Travis no longer wants a cure and embraces his autism with grace.

Follow Travis' story of redemption. This story takes you through the roller coaster ride of anxiety and depression and is a great autism parent book for those wanting to gain better understanding of the ever-changing emotions their autistic child faces. There are many ups and downs with autism but staying the course is what has made Travis the person he is today.

Read along to find out how Travis used mindfulness, cognitive behavior therapy, and meditation to change his thinking and learn to love his autism. Travis wants thought he had to pay a fee in order to get women to like him and now he realizes how much of an impact that false belief had on his life. That false belief lead to many negative behaviors that would put him in some sticky situations that were difficult to get out of.

Travis shares how he went from near suicide to loving himself and his autism in a few short months with help of a friend and a Sonrise approach that focuses on connecting with the person who has autism in their world instead of making them come into your world. Travis says if you connect with autistic people in their world it is easier to encourage them to connect in your world. This is a great autism parent book for learning how to encourage development of the self-esteem in the autistic child and autistic adult.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Breeding Publishing
• Release date: Jan 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463860175

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,

Book preview

The Great Autism Redemption Book I

Travis Breeding

Published by Travis Breeding at Smashwords

Copyright 2019 Travis Breeding

All Rights Reserved

Contents

The Great Autism Redemption Book I

About the Author

The Great Autism Redemption

After spending years of my life believing I was not a real person because I had not experienced sex, I have reached a new place in life. I still think experiencing sex will be one of the greatest things in the world. However, I have freed myself of the misery of believing that experiencing sex was a life or death thing.

In years past, I have self-injured because I believed I deserved to be punished for not having sexual intimacy with a woman.

My mind played games with me and even confused me of my sexuality. Did I like men? The answer of course is no.

Living as an undiagnosed Aspie until the age of 22, I knew I liked girls from the age of 13. I formed an intense desire to be with them both emotionally and intimately.

Lacking the social skills to meet women in appropriate ways, I threw myself at women with a bunch of "Hi I’m Travis. Will you marry me questions and a bunch of Hi I’m Travis, will you have sex with me questions.

Those immediate questions came after a few years of trying to approach it like everyone else. I learned that intimacy takes a very deep connection and I kept getting rejected.

Eventually, it bothered me to the point I needed to be vulnerable and seek help. I went to counseling to ask, how do I get a girlfriend? What I learned was that I needed to ask a different question. How do I love myself?

Years of social rejection had led to a very poor self-esteem. I did not believe in myself. I did not love myself. I believed I could not love myself because a woman had not slept with me. I needed a woman to love me before I could love myself. I was broken then, but now I am whole.

I would be diagnosed with autism in the fall of 2007. Right away and for nearly ten years I thought that autism was wrong with me and I hated it. For years I tried to cure it and make it go away. I’m glad that was not possible. I am glad I am autistic now.

I realize now, I believed Autism was wrong with me because of my initial approach to counseling. I approached my first counseling appointment ever feeling broken with a desire to fix myself, so others could like me and want to be with me.

I desperately wanted the counselor to fix me because I did not know how to fix myself. What was it that made girls not like me?

When the counselor did not fix me instantly I became frustrated and more upset at myself. So, I self-injured some more and punished myself for who I