21 Comics About ADHD By A 29-Year-Old Artist That Only Got The Right Diagnosis A Year Ago

Me

This is scarily relatable

This is me to a tee. I don't have an ADHD diagnosis, but this is my day, every day.

I’ve ADD & generalized anxiety. Graduated from a great law school, but am almost always late to work because I can’t find (my shoes, my belt, my keys, my briefcase, my wallet, my phone) and half the time I discover I forgot to (wash my pits in the shower, use anti-perspirant, eat breakfast) once I’ve gotten to work.

This is totally me. So, I make a list so I get things done in the right order, so I don't miss anything.. which leads to other lists, and lists of lists..... and I get nothing done. HELP. ME.

What is normal? I have felt very much like this for virtually all of my 60+ years, like I don't fit some how. But as I've got older I've realised there is no such thing as 'normal'. Sometimes I still feel like I'm on the outside looking in on 'normal' life. But I know it's just an illusion.

nothing wrong with not bein' normal. I got diagnosed late in life too XD it has its own unique set of challenges

That's how I feel, but I have a best friend with adhd by my side, and I don't feel alone anymore.

ADDA conventions helped me. People understood me. It was incredible. Did those for three years. I didn't just meet other people diagnosed as adults, I met the authors of the books I read to try and make sense of everything.

Thank you

As someone training to be a therapist, that therapist is poorly trained.

I’ve maybe trusted the wrong ones a few too many times-

His feeling of want-to but can’t has been my struggle my WHOLE LIFE and only within the last few months did I discover it was a big symptom of ADHD. Now, at 22, I just scheduled an appointment with a neurologists to hopefully be officially diagnosed.

Karen would like to speak to the manager

During the Dot Com boom roughly 20 years ago, people with ADHD were universally, in the USA, thought to be geniuses: like - that’s how you could spot a genius: he has ADHD and understands all that techy stuff. And is raking in a very good wage at a tech job if not founding one himself! …Dot Com burst for everyone. Is it REVENGE that we 1st have to believe ourselves worthless addicts with no self-control or personal preference, and… now we’re ALSO incapable of even being “bright minded”?! Everyone knows it’s the inattentive ADD who brings down our collective IQ scores! (I’m joking but it was also once thought true, lol!)

Me: Has an extensive knowledge on serial killers, the paranormal, mythology, tradition, video games, anime, and psychological disorders. Also me: Can't fill out a single paged worksheet.

yep i have adhd and read for about maybye two hours on one book last night and ende up going to bed at 1:30 AM

I have adhd and can agree with the hyper fixation i love a survival game called ark and for like a month that was all i could think about, constantly talking about it thinking about it during school while (attempting) doing homework, if i wasn't playing i was on the companion app preparing for when i did play.

I'm terrified of getting rejected. My mom doesn't understand any of this. I wish she could read this and understand

I actually almost got misdiagnosed with ADHD (depression and anxiety disguised as it) by a state funded hospital program, that was fun

Ok, now I'm glad that in times like this I can eventualy say "Oh, f**k it"

I get the worst emotional dysregulation at like 12 am. So when I read something to try and tire myself out, I'll usually end up an emotional mess of not knowing how to feel.

why is this me

THIS IS ME. People tell me I'm annoying all the time and now I'm extremely self conscious and almost never do what I want to do and it is constantly a conflict

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I don’t have an ADHD diagnosis, but I’ve been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and I’m starting to think one of the root causes of my anxiety has been ADHD... my Dad and sister have it, but I don’t have all the same symptoms that they do, and when I’ve looked it up in the past I thought “I don’t have allll of these things, so I must not have it” but this comic relating ADHD to anxiety is freaking me out. I’ve been told I’m too loud my entire life, and I stopped talking about myself except to people who already know me well... I don’t know if I have it “bad” enough to be diagnosed, but this is resonating really strongly. Oh also I talk too long (Like right now) and people lose interest/get distracted and it makes me angry that they can’t stay engaged... I thought it was them, hut maybe it’s me...

'always being told you're too loud so you became quiet and now you never talk anymore' wow okay i feel personally attacked

Thinking about it now, I might have anxiety too-

Check, check, check aaand check

This one made me cry. The amount of pressure I've put on myself since childhood to avoid this type of criticism is truly crushing and exhausting.

Well yes but you can also go to university like I and p**s everyone off by encouraging and invoking your rights and educating people on adhd. Or just be adhd in this environment and getting pretty much all to not like you. Or this. Or. Adhd in uni then failing because adhd brain over and over. But stay in it and on it. Adhd is neither super power or curse.

Or they say something like:" everyone has ADHD"

Love the last frame!

LOL THAT IS THE BEST COMEBACK IM FR USING IT

I relate to all of them but the last one speaks to my inner soul and knows it's wrong, but I can't just stop it. I do everything for everyone.

p.s i have major ADHD