Macbook pro, mouse pointer acting like paint brush after sleep mode

This just started recently, I went into Systems Preference and tried alternating various point/gestures etc. w/o any luck. Not using any other mouse. What did I do to create this, the only way to stop the brush from erasing the page is to powerdown.

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