Why is my brush tool slicing through when I overlap a stroke?

When I use my brush tool, I go and try to do some cool designs with it, but it wont let me overlap a stroke without "Slicing" through the stroke. Please help:( Here's an example Gyazo - d769be8e1cbaa1bb5e391bd8c5ed52b9.png

We'll need to see the complete object as well as the appearance stack and the brush itself.

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