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AA thread, how do I handle this situation?

Background info: I'm still fairly new to the AA scene (1 year), but I make enough money doing it to support myself. My work is weird and not everyone's cup of tea.

My problem: I have been doing this for an entire year, and whenever I visit my relatives, or one of my friends talk to me about it I get one of a few sentences (sometimes many at the same time)
>"It's working now Anon, but you can't expect it to last forever."
>"I have a really great suggestion for you, it's *something that is completely not my style and is outside of my brand*, I wouldn't want one but I'm sure someone would!"
>"You should feel so blessed and privileged that you get to do art for a living. There are people all over the world who want to do what you do but aren't privileged enough to do it."
>"I really liked when you were doing cartooning, why don't you do that anymore? You could have been a professional!"
>"You should outsource to China, you'll make more money that way."
>"That's cool but when are you getting a real job?"

I feel like a cunt because I know they're just trying to look out for me and or help me, but it's really getting to me. It's taken a lot of personal work for me to not only have something people want to buy, but to convince myself that I can actually make a career and do what I've always wanted to do. I feel like a pussy that it bothers me so much, but I realized yesterday that apart from my husband, nobody has ever said "Anon, I'm happy you are doing what you want to do."

How do I politely escape this negativity without being even more of a bitch? It happens too ofter (more than once a day) for me to say 'screw the haters' and I'm at the end of my rope.
Sorry for blogging, I hope you have suggestions. Thank you!

Not lolita related, but con related
>Be selling at an AA
>Arrive at con
>Con won't let me in because I don't have state identification
>My products are already there (?) so I ask for them back since I can't sell at the con
>They won't give them back because they can't confirm my identity
>Start crying
>They let me in because I'm crying
>The interior of the con is like a stereotypical bazaar with tents and rugs everywhere and everything smells like spices and horses
>Find my booth finally
>It's behind a bunch of boxes
>Other artists moved it there because they hate me
>They continually wreck my displays and steal my stuff because I'm a newb and they don't like me
>Not selling anything, can barely keep up with the shenanigans, start crying again
>My boyfriend shows up
>Tells me it's all going to be okay
>Says he's going to make it all better
>WITH HIS DICK

My subconscious was so unable to handle my stress levels about my first AA, it just had me bone my boyfriend instead. I'm not sure how to interpret it.

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Pregnancy dreams are weird as fuk.