9.9- Yesterday was awesome! The "Heroes for autism" show updated their site and it has my name on it! They call the artists, "the nation's most celebrated artists" basically calling me a famous artist. That's why when you click on my name on this site it says occupation Famous Artist and professional speaker in the making. Just remember I was accepted into a lot of other major shows that hundreds if not thousands of disabled artists apply to. Only a tiny few get in. Like the Heroes for autism site only 24 artists get in and autistic people from around the country tried to get it. It was a juried show, as are the other ones I got into. I didn't realize I was that good since its just colored pencil (well, mainly I do other mediums too but am the most experienced in colored pencil). I also found out that one of our friends has this contact that will get me into autism conferences nationwide and mental health conferences they pay your expenses and he said a lot of them pay $10,000 for a 30 minute speech. My mom gave me a great idea what to do with the money. Give up half of it (well, since I am becoming famous I will as a speaker as well so I'll be making $100 BILLION OK maybe not that much but a lot more than I'm making now on Social Security) to the conferences (like mental health organizations, autism organizations, and for my art I would like to donate money to different animal organizations). When all this becomes reality, I am also going to write a book about my experiences being autistic and schizophrenic and doing all these speeches and art shows. I want to inspire people and give them hope.
I also want to talk to teachers and schools about bullying and for them to change their policy. I want if its a physical attack on another student to be treated as a criminal case as assault. If they take bullying that seriously, then it should cut it down. When I was in junior high and high school I was constantly bullied and I don't want other people with disabilities to deal with that. That's mainly who they pick on. And whats sad, is when I was bullied the teachers blamed ME because I was "different" and I got suspended for crying or reacting to when someone physically hurt me. So, I am going to spread disability awareness at the schools so the teachers won't tell the disabled or "different" person that its their fault for being bullied.
The main thing I am down about is mom's health. Recently she had a near death experience and I predicted it before it happened. I feel responsible and guilty. I saw it in my dreams that her back was going to be severely infected after surgery. One of the doctors said that his mother just died of the same thing that my mom has which is MRSA. In fact my mom's infection was so bad, they had to do emergency surgery on her back. So that means she had 2 surgeries on her back.