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Old Sep 24, 2012, 07:00 PM
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For the last few weeks a lot of weird stuff has been going on as it says in the title. I don't know if this is the right place. For the past few weeks my memory, concentration, and even coordination has been deteriorating majorly. I remember things way after the fact after it happened but a few seconds I forget things so easily like a very old person. I am 29 years young. Today I was given money to put in my wallet (it was money I made) and my dad put it down on the counter this morning. I picked it up moved it around and put it back on the counter for no apparent reason and forgot to even put it in my wallet until I got home just now. I have been leaving my iPod at home and normally its automatic that I take it with when I go places. Then each night it usually is automatic to charge my tablet (i have that along my iPod). In the middle of a sentence I forget what I am saying constantly. Sometimes I wonder if I took a shower or not or if I just did whatever.

I am also hearing weird things. Someone would say something to me and I respond, "did you say...." and supposedly it was nothing even close to that. I constantly hear the wrong words and my hearing is better than average most of the time. I hear things out of the blue as well.

My art if I haven't told you (I probably did) is completely cursed. Every single place (and boy there is a lot!) has either shut down or kicked me out of their store. One of the first places I shut down was a gallery in Olympia Washington. It was doing well before I got in and at first I did as well. Then bam! A sudden slowdown. It ain't just the economy because its still happening with new places as well and the economy is supposedly "better." Of course they totally had to shut down. Then another place a antique store closed a few months after I got in because they had too many things stolen. including my stuff! My stuff had more things stolen than bought. So they had to close down. Then I got to be in not just one but two galleries in Seattle! They were related to autism. At first someone told me how well they are selling that they even sold a $16,000 picture like its nothing. Mine were just a few hundred dollars mind you. Then another slowdown. I didn't sell an original at ALL. Then not one but both the galleries had to shut down. Even though they were one of the best galleries in Seattle with people buying all the time and during the slower times at least they sold a lot of cards and prints.

Lets move to online stores. I shut down 2. One of them was called Social Stripes. They had all the marketing in the world. They worked with autism groups everywhere. After awhile it was so bad they had to shut down. The other is known as Open Hands. Same story. They had to close down.

There is another store I am in Canada. At first they were doing great. This is a bird store but now they are slowing down considerably. It can't be just the economy to blame for EVERYTHING.

Now Mud Bay is the biggest store I was in. They had 18 stores in my area. I had cards in there and then mine were the slowest selling cards they have so they kicked me out.

Now on to the coordination. I can barely put food in my mouth, messing up more when I type, walking into things constantly, putting food on a plate, etc. It has been always bad but its getting progressively worse in the last few weeks.

I also have problems with energy levels and sleep. Either I sleep huge amounts of time or move around all night long. My energy is almost non-existent. I have to take naps during the day. It is very hard to do my normal everyday activities. I can't build my models or draw for more than a few minutes. There are times that around 5pm that I want to go to sleep already. I also can sleep until 1-3pm if I don't have anything scheduled.

During the autism conference I had weird things going on there as well. Even now its happening. I feel like I am in a dream and nothing feels real. I talked weird at the conference like a monotone voice along with some disorganization while talking to people about selling my stuff. At least it was successful at the autism conference. In las Vegas it was interesting because I was in a flash flood.

I have been starting to see things again and I already mentioned about the hearing things. Luckily now its mostly silent in my head.

I have already mentioned some of the stressors that are going on like I am worrying and terrified about our future along with my brother. My brother's app is a massive failure. Just like his website. Both things have not a single user. Even though the website has been advertised even on huge blogs (Technorati) among others. His SSI for the second time has been denied. He has no money AT ALL and can't pay off his student loans and this is the year that it is due and we already delayed it as much as possible so now we HAVE NO CHOICE. My dad is probably needing dangerous back or hip surgery. OK I think this is long enough and I am sorry for putting so much information on here. There is much more but I won't write it now.
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