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Dani Donovan 👩🏻🎨 ADHD Comics
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻🎨 ADHD Comics
@danidonovan
🎨 ADHD creator 🎤 Keynote speaker 📚 Author + designer of “The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It” ✨anti-planner.com✨
- the ADHD urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)
- yeah sex is great, but have you ever been running late only to find out the person you’re meeting is running even later so it looks like you got there on time
- “Call and schedule an appointment” N O O o o o o 。 。 . . . .
- Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult feels like being told you suck at Mario Kart your whole life and then finding out your game generates 40 times more banana peels than it's supposed to
- Remembering that time in 8th grade when I wrote a letter to Roald Dahl telling him he was one of my favorite authors and got a really nice letter back from his publishing company informing me Roald Dahl has been dead since before I was born
- the “former gifted kid” to “burnt-out-perfectionist-with-a-praise-kink” pipeline
- My brain has two modes: A) 30 hours of work done in 8 hours B) 30 minutes of work done in 8 hours
- the ADHD urge to lie about why you didn’t do something because “my brain refused to start on it” doesn’t make sense to a lot of neurotypicals
- the ADHD urge to continue procrastinating despite the anxious, pleading voice in your head desperately begging you to stop
- me: let’s do something productive 🧠: not today me: why? 🧠: i’m overwhelmed me: by what? 🧠: nothing. everything. i don’t know. what’s with all the questions
- “I remember you telling me that! And then [story details], right?” ★★★★★ “You told me this story already.” ★☆☆☆☆
- my cat just sneezed a bunch of times in a row and then hissed at HIMSELF what an icon
- the ADHD urge to pour time and energy into developing a complex organizational system, just to immediately abandon it because it requires too much effort to maintain