Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics

me: i don’t want this stuff here 🧠: so put it away me: absolutely not

ADHD is seeing infinite possibilities of things to do then getting too overwhelmed to actually start on any of them

i don't procrastinate i simply prefer to work in a deadline-induced, adrenaline-filled state of absolute fucking panic

ADHD FRIENDS— Jessica McCabe (@HowToADHD) and I are having a public, no-BS chat tonight about all things ADHD. It's gonna be rad 💖 TONIGHT (10/21) - 5:30 PT - 8:30 ET Registration is ✨FREE✨

ADHD is “haha everything’s fine” followed quickly by “if one (1) more tiny thing happens i will die of overwhelm”

helping people with their tasks ★★★★★ doing my own tasks ★☆☆☆☆

the ADHD urge to procrastinate by obsessively tinkering with some unimportant subtask that's only quasi-related to what you were originally trying to do

what kind of stuff do you ruminate about?

planning is either a great idea or avoidance in a trenchcoat and it's very hard to know which is which

procrasti-cleaning strikes again

my ADHD ass trying to pick one (1) task to start on

I actually did it!!! Episode 1 of Piles for Miles about ✨laundry✨ is on YouTube! Unscripted, unedited, and filmed in front of my artisanal clothes pile 🧺 Great to listen to while body-doubling, on your drive home, or while walking your pet penguin!

Struggle to convince your brain to do stuff? I made a toolbox for procrastinators! The digital Anti-Planner is $45 off rn, and you don't have to worry about "ruining" the fun, illustrated pages. Lookin' at you, fellow perfectionists 🙃

ADHD FRIENDS— i caught myself mid-distraction and forced myself back on track THREE TIMES today 🥳 that is not a perfect record (i got distracted plenty) but still sometimes noticing > never noticing

Are these your days too, or are they different? 🤔

what might your self-esteem have looked like if you weren't taught your worth as a human was based on your ability to "keep up" with your peers?

did it hurt? when you realized you over-explain because you're constantly bracing for judgment that hasn't actually happened yet

I've got a new YouTube series! 🥳 In "Piles for Miles," I walk through: - Various kinds of doom piles - Why ADHD brains end up w/ them - Coping strategies It's part unscripted explainer video, part storytelling. Episode 0 (intro) is live!

when people ask engaging questions to show they're genuinely interested in hearing you talk more 😍🥰😭

I hate doing dishes. Anybody got tips? 🍽️😭

Here are my top 5 tips for finishing things you start: 1. Make a list 2.

what do you do to manage your anxiety?

Dani and her Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Posture

what abandoned hobby would you love to get back into, but just can't get yourself to start again?

1. finally start something you've been procrastinating 2. begin perfectionism mode 3. burn out halfway through 4. take a break 5. lack energy to get started again 6. promise you'll finish it later 7. don't

🎶 Self-esteem, we neeeever see. Self-esteem, what's that? Who's he??? 🎶

i hate productivity advice that's like "take frequent breaks!" it implies a level of self-control that i simply do not possess

Have you had a full-blown panic attack before? Not an anxiety attack. A "take me to the hospital, I'm about to die" panic attack.

I've fallen into the awful cycle of ordering delivery because I can't work up the energy to buy groceries... let alone cook. What are your go-to instant meals that don't require any cooking or cleanup? (Bonus points for non-perishable or frozen foods that won't go bad.)

therapist: and what do we do when we're depressed me: find a sad song with lyrics that relate to my life and play it on repeat until i start bawling therapist: yikes

making decisions is exhausting, and yet i need an opinion on everything

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did it hurt? when you realized you make excuses for people who treat you poorly, because deep down you’re afraid of being alone on the playground again

“are you ok?” i was 20 minutes ago, but some invisible emotional train hit me out of nowhere and now i feel sad and numb for no reason

wait what do you mean you don't constantly worry that you said something wrong and everyone is mad at you and not telling you

when you have so much to do that you don’t do anything :)

what are your top fears that involve your ADHD?

what are the top 3 things that distract you the most? i'll go first: 1. new ideas 2. entertainment / media 3. perpetual inner self-commentary

Living with ADHD doesn’t mean that I don’t have focus. It means most of the time, I can’t control where that focus LANDS.

my toxic trait is i'm a world-class rambler with zero tolerance for other people rambling

ADHD = you often don’t MEAN to do the things you do and don't DO the things you mean to do

them: so anyway, like i was saying— 🧠: ooh, i had a thought. wait, don't interrupt. but don't forget what you were going to say. but don't interrupt

I get so overwhelmed by multi-step tasks. I don’t know where to start. ...so I don’t start at all.

rumination is like picking at mental scabs

what's your favorite thing and least favorite thing about having ADHD?

can we talk about how frustrating it is when you get hyperfocused and obsessively tinker with one part of something for hours because you want it to be perfect (even though it doesn’t actually matter that much) and then have no energy to actually do the rest of the thing

the burnt-out urge to rewatch the same TV shows because you don’t have the mental energy to process new plotlines

when i was 13, i tried Halo 2 for the first time. i couldn’t stay alive longer than 2 mins. i cried and eventually gave up. found out later the difficulty was set to LEGENDARY getting my ADHD diagnosis felt similar. “oh. i’m not a failure. it’s not supposed to be this hard”

the ADHD urge to get into an argument because your brain is understimulated

WHY I PROCRASTINATE: ❌ laziness ❌ apathy ✅ fear of failure ✅ heavily relying on external stress (+ fear of angering others) to be productive