Support Nycto's Journey to Stability and Creativity

Hello, my name is Nycto. I'm 27, nonbinary (they/them), and a semi-professional artist and aspiring animator. And unfortunately, I will be returning to homelessness at the end of this month-- something I feared would come back around in my life.

For the last 6 years, I've been struggling with poverty. I've been homeless before at the start of this period, and have struggled with moving over and over since escaping that time period just to stay housed. I have had to work my life away to keep the roof over my head, putting my dream career on hold for the retail 9-5 grind until recently. With that, I have had to endure some of the roughest situations in the meantime, and constant fear that it could all be pulled from under me.

So with this comes the transparency: I am severely mentally ill. I have several unmedicated disorders and disabilities that have made working these jobs now impossible. I have endured so much abuse at the hands of this industry, suffering with having bad management, abusive customers, and no work-life balance due to expenses and public transit sucking up every moment of my time. Moving so often isolates me from friends and loved ones. I couldn't escape, as many higher paying jobs that are less customer-centric require degrees or experience in that industry, of which I had no opportunity to gain due to constant rejections for either that or my mental health limitations. I am entirely alone in this, and it made me suicidal to the point of desperation-- it came down to the choice of pursuing school or death about 9 months ago. The moment I thought I had an opportunity to get started again, this happened just as suddenly.

While I'm trying to figure everything out, I was recommended to create a GoFundMe, and I'll be using it mostly for my immediate bills, debts, and food. Thank you for reading this far, and even more so if you are able to contribute-- no matter how small.