ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents his story describing how disability can overlap with or manifest in other problems like drug use or inability to hold a job. The author discusses how understanding disability can help people better understand the source of these problems, why routine is so important to him and how others can assist disabled people in the routines that enable their lives. He can remember the early days of having schizophrenia. He was so afraid of the implications of subtle body language, like a lingering millisecond of eye contact, the way his feet hit the ground when he walked or the way he held his hands to his side. It was a struggle to go into a store or, really, anywhere he was bound to see another living member of the human species.
