Why I Drink Gasoline

Travis explains why he drinks gasoline to keep dragons and voices from killing him. He lives with schizophrenia and the dragons try to get him to poor gasoline on himself and light himself on fire. When Travis battles back with the voices he ends up having to drink gasoline as a punishment for being autistic and being a virgin.Psychosis has taken over Travis' life. Dragons control his life now.Travis' voices are always trying to get him to punish himself or hurt himself because he has autism and is a virgin. Travis explains how drinking gasoline helps make the voices and dragons happy in this book. He often finds himself in situations in which he has to compromise with the dragons in order to stay alive. If they tell him to kill himself then he has to counter with an idea to hurt himself that will not kill himself. The dragons and voices are very persistent about Travis be punished and will do whatever it takes to ensure that he hurts himself. Fresh out of the mental health hospital Travis explains why he drank gasoline as a punishment for being autistic and a virgin so that the dragons would not make him kill himself. This book is an eye opener about schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and the psychosis that people with schizophrenia suffer through.