Living With Adult ADHD: Explained In Comics

<p>If I had to summarize my ADHD experience in one sentence it would be this: Chasing a life where everything you do is exciting and avoiding everything that could be even slightly boring. October is ADHD awareness month and I think it&rsquo;s time I tell you how ADHD affects my everyday life &mdash; in comics (because who has the patience to read a text without pictures).</p> <p>ADHD stands for &ldquo;Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder&rdquo;. It is usually associated with hyperactive children but in reality, ADHD affects all ages and it doesn&rsquo;t have to make you visibly hyperactive at all. You see, your brain can be &ldquo;hyperactive&rdquo; in that it makes it hard for you to decide where to direct your attention. Since this makes ADHDers easily distractible, we crave highly stimulating activities that can keep our attention.</p> <p>Most of the time, these highly stimulating activities are not physical, like I&rsquo;m not talking extreme sports or adrenaline rush. Most neurodivergent people (aka Autism spectrum + ADHD folks + other neurodevelopmental conditions) will consider very specific activities personally stimulating to them. For example, I find writing this article very stimulating at this moment. But if it goes on for too long, I might get bored with it and leave it&hellip;and then completely forget about it (I do need to publish it during October though, so I&rsquo;ll set a calendar reminder for this).</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/anas-stories/living-with-adult-adhd-explained-in-comics-f84c909786f1"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>
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