-10, terribly depressed. Every one of my April art shows were a complete failure and I believe I was the cause. I caused this economy to get real bad, people have been reading my mind. For 10 F-ing years, I have made nearly every show a failure except one last year. Whoop dee do. I hate myself and still want to die. I am not made for success. What's that word mean, you know, "success"? Never heard of it before. Not within my reach. I bet the conferences that I will speak at will be some kind of disaster, like their excuses "its the worst one ever" or in the middle of my speech my alter pops out and doesn't know where she is and of course can't do the speech since she's 5. Yay, my mental age at that moment is 5. How fun!! ! I have no clue how DID works. How is this possible? I know I had trauma, but how is DID physically possible in people? I mean, you lose the ability to do things, you ARE the age of what your alter is...well at least mentally. That means, technically when I "switch" I am mentally challenged with an IQ of get this people, (if I did the calculations right) 19! I thought for sure that it would be around 30. With uncontrolled DID, you can't really be a success, especially if you have the little ones inside of you. I mean, how can you if say you have a job and a young one comes out and doesn't know what they are doing? You get fired of course! You also don't want to embarrass the company that you are working for like if you have to work with customers. The average person doesn't even know what DID does to you. And remember I have the autism and schizoaffective on top of that! And severe anxiety (that's probably what caused everything in the first place). I'm just a useless person, totally useless. I have 2 autism conferences in May, along with an art show. All of which I expect to fail...even though before I was so excited about it. I was in Arts Walk, expecting a lot of sales (I mean literally tens of thousands go to this event) and just sold one lousy print and a few cards. At today's art show, I didn't even sell a print, and my prints aren't that expensive, so there's NO excuse! This proves over and over again that either I cause all these shows to be bad, or that my art isn't good enough. And 99.9% of artists never make it anyways and that is my ONLY hope in life. Where do you think they came up with the term "starving artist"? I am just a walking talking DSM IV with no future ahead of me. I don't understand why I was so happy and even manic a few months ago. Failure is the only word I know.