I Create Comics About What It’s Like Living With ADHD In Adulthood Through This Cute Dinosaur Character (30 New Pics)
ADHDinos is a webcomic about the daily struggles I (and many others) experience with ADHD. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and felt like I was on my own. I was then surprised to find such a massive and supportive online community where I was able to learn how to better navigate many of my problematic behaviors.
For more of my comics on Bored Panda, see part 1, part 2 and part 3.
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Just put it in a random bag for me to re-find months later
dangit, i have SO many comic ideas that i have not executed yet… auuugh
The comic actually started as a list of all the stuff I was struggling with (I guess it hasn't changed much in that sense). I figured it would be a little easier to address this stuff when it was on paper, so I've been writing them down since the night I was diagnosed with ADHD. Within a couple of days, I made the first comic, building it around the name ADHDinos, which I thought was really funny. That first comic talked about avoiding big tasks by completing small ones, something I had been doing for years.
Oh my goodness I relate to this so much. It's like being trapped inside your mind in this tiny little cell and there's this little goblin cackling at the control station while I'm clutching the bars and screaming at it to just "LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION/LESSON/FRIENDS". But the little goblin is the one selecting what the little goblin hears so it never listens to me
( The Mom) HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND BACK ON AGAIN??
Load More Replies...Since starting the comic, I've gotten into the habit of writing everything down. I have about 1600 notes at the moment (now sorted!). I counted last week, and I'm averaging about 7 per day. The problem is- it's a lot of jibberish. Sometimes I'll go back to an idea and have no clue what I was getting at. I've learned, however, that it's best to write everything down because some of this stuff is hard to articulate, and sometimes it takes a couple of tries to get right.
What's worse... you do the thing... then the next day you ask yourself "Did you do the thing"... then you berate yourself "You idiot... you never do the thing ... you totally haven't done the thing" so you panic and do the thing AGAIN... but are now stressed because all the stuff you set up for the thing aren't there... and....
I struggled with all of this stuff for a really long time... I still do, of course, but knowing that I'm not alone was a huge first step toward improving. For the first time in a really long time, I'm not too busy hating and berating myself to actually address the issues I'm facing. There really is no shame in struggling, nor is there shame in getting help when you need it. My progress hasn't been linear, but I can zoom out and see the general trend of improvement, which is really nice.
"It appears the difficulty of this task was oversold to me." "But you're the one that sold it to yourself?" "it appears the difFICULTY OF THIS TASK WAS OVERSOLD TO ME-"
If you like my work consider supporting me on Patreon, it's the best way to support the series! Every comic to date is available as a T-Shirt on my new website. "ADHDinos: The Land Before Time Management" will be available this spring!
Hey, now install a slide and sell mcnuggets to kids. You'll be swimming with money in no time!(Or just hop in the ball pit, you decide)
Load More Replies...My brain fog could be used for a set in a new Silent Hill movie
Dang live and all its 'consequences' *insert dino doing air quotation marks emoji here*
wait what did i eat for breakfast? oh yeah i didn't have breakfast lol
He's just hungry for some dopamine
Load More Replies...Family member: when was the last time you showered me: I have no idea Family member: that probably means it's been a while me: I literally could have showered an hour ago for all I know, me not remembering is not an indication of the length of time it's been. Family member: go shower me: yeah, probably a good idea, I forgot those existed until you reminded me-
I wanted to know what the new hyperfixation is, but it just reads 'new hyperfixation'
This really sucks. I will get home from school and start drawing to decompress, and since I don’t eat breakfast and rarely eat lunch, I forget to have a snack, and my school has the awful 2 bathroom passes per trimester thing, so I forget that too. So fun /j
Just doing dino things; stampeding, tearing, screeching, you know...
Thank God brains don't have a self destruct button. Just self destructive behavior 😌
I have adhd and I would rather not do something than do it bad- like if I don't have motivation to do it it ain't getting done but I also hold myself to a high standard cuz I'm good at school
The problem with this is that say it's a 500 word count, and you just type YES 500 times
I don't w***y nilly send stuff. I spent a year as a proofreader. It was like a game. Another mistake from them was a win for me
the word is willie nillie. with a y its a bad word I guess
Load More Replies...One of the many reasons you would not want to be cut in roman times.
Load More Replies...Same I went to the comments to see if this is actually adhd or if everyone was like this... Then I realised...
Load More Replies...It's occurring to me I may have ADHDinos... that's a logical diagnosis given my advanced age, right?
I'm not just IN this comic, I'm living this comic and I don't like it XD I should probably seek a formal diagnosis... we didn't really commonly diagnose things like autism and ADHD when I grew up in the 80s.
fyi the font they are using is specifically for persons living with dyslexia.
If you do, keep track of your issues (on paper) for a few weeks before you go in. It will save time and money. There isn't really a test test. It's evaluated by talking to you.
Load More Replies...Same I went to the comments to see if this is actually adhd or if everyone was like this... Then I realised...
Load More Replies...It's occurring to me I may have ADHDinos... that's a logical diagnosis given my advanced age, right?
I'm not just IN this comic, I'm living this comic and I don't like it XD I should probably seek a formal diagnosis... we didn't really commonly diagnose things like autism and ADHD when I grew up in the 80s.
fyi the font they are using is specifically for persons living with dyslexia.
If you do, keep track of your issues (on paper) for a few weeks before you go in. It will save time and money. There isn't really a test test. It's evaluated by talking to you.
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