This is the origin story of how I became known on Tik-Tok as "Unkillable Positivity".

A survivor of Guillain Barre Syndrome, this is the walk that led me to Tik-Tok. This audiobook recounts the events that molded me into the man that lived in your phones.

Encouraged by friends and family that I had a story worth telling, I became a self-proclaimed autoimmune advocate on social media, whose ramblings captured the attention of fellow autoimmune, chronic illness, and chronic pain sufferers along the way. I shared my life on social media—the good, the bad, and the ugly—as a way to make others like me to feel not quite so alone. I struck a chord with more folks than I ever anticipated as the struggles that I shared were shared by the sick, by the caregivers and even by those who were not themselves ill, because struggle is a universal language, no matter the root cause. Because of this, I garnered more love and support than I could have ever imagined.

For those that have followed me on Tik-Tok, there are Easter Eggs throughout this autobiography, but rest assured there are many stories that were left untold on the app that are explored here.

A journey marked by more tragedy than triumph, but more than that, a journey that pushed me to seek a purpose behind the suffering. A need to do something positive with all the pain, to somehow use my struggles to be a force for good.