hi everybody
i never formally introduced myself!
i'm not used to talking about my art or myself but 4 years ago i had a psychotic break when it finally clicked that i was autistic and for the first time i posted about being autistic on here because i needed to talk to someone since my family wouldn't listen to me (they thought i was simply being psychotic and making things up)
i ended up deleting that post because i felt like it was too personal but lately i've realized that people actually connect with your work more if they know a bit about the artist behind it!
i'm beau, a non-binary visual artist from brazil, 31 yrs old. i was officially diagnosed as audhd and ocd a couple of months after that!
when i was a child, my mom said i wouldn't play by myself - i needed her or a friend to be around in order to actually play but i would spend hours upon hours drawing...i love to draw cute things!
i used to draw loads of dolls, clothes and accessories because i wanted to be a fashion designer but i gave up on that idea since the public university in my state didnt offer a fashion design program. i studied english then i switched to an art major. then i dropped out of art school because i wasn't able to write my final paper and i still feel like a huge failure because of it.
i didn't know i was audhd at the time and i've been trying to rebuild my self-esteem ever since. finding out my diagnoses was a big relief but it also brought me a lot of grief. i'm thinking of maybe going back to school now... thank you for reading this far!