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🎨 ADHD artist + TikTok creator 🧠 #NeurodiverseSquad 📚 Author of “The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It” ✨✨

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Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics
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Aaaaahhhh!! My first book “The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It” is officially up for pre-orders! I'm only doing a ✨limited run✨ of pre-orders (which are $10 off right now!) so get yours while you still can! Check it out:
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the ADHD urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)
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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
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“Call and schedule an appointment” N   O     O      o      o       o      o      。     。    .    .     .     .
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Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics
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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
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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
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the “former gifted kid” to “burnt-out-perfectionist-with-a-praise-kink” pipeline
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My brain has two modes: A) 30 hours of work done in 8 hours B) 30 minutes of work done in 8 hours
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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
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the ADHD urge to continue procrastinating despite the anxious, pleading voice in your head desperately begging you to stop
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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
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“I remember you telling me that! And then [story details], right?” ★★★★★ “You told me this story already.” ★☆☆☆☆
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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
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the ADHD urge to play a single song on nonstop repeat for days/weeks and fuck up your entire Spotify Wrapped
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therapist: and what do we do when we’re feeling overwhelmed? me: accidentally alienate myself from loved ones by not answering their text messages therapist: …no
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the ADHD urge to over-complicate a simple task by turning it into an ambitious project, until you get so overwhelmed/intimidated by the massive (uneccessary) undertaking that you abandon ship and never return
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Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics
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ADHD: Consistently Inconsistent™️
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here’s your friendly reminder that it is not normal to feel like you’re walking on eggshells around someone all the time
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my adhd my anxiety 🤝 over-explaining to avoid being misunderstood
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the ADHD urge to whip out your phone and Google everything because unanswered questions make your brain itchy
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4 years
Productivity anxiety is a vicious cycle. I’ve been trapped in it more times than I can count. Anyone else feel the same?
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SPILF (side-project I'd like to finish)
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What people think #ADHD is: - “squirrel!” When ADHD involves severe difficulty with: - internal motivation - regulating emotions - long-term goals - time blindness - prioritizing - regulating attention - sleep - guilt/shame - self-esteem #WorldMentalHealthDay #ADHDAwarenessMonth
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therapist: and what do we do when we’re feeling stressed? me: stop making plans, avoid text messages, and accidentally alienate myself from all of my friends therapist: no
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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
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the ADHD urge to convince yourself you’re going to bed early and then proceed to scroll your phone until 1:30am
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🧠: i’m anxious me: why 🧠: it’s a secret ;)
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the ADHD urge to force yourself to get up early in an attempt to get more stuff done, only to spend so much time “getting ready” to work that you might as well have just slept in
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the ADHD experience of telling a story to a group but realize in the middle of a sentence no one's actually listening anymore so you slowly get quiet and die just a little inside
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children who are constantly criticized grow into teens who learn to hate themselves for failing to live up to others’ expectations who grow into adults who reflexively over-apologize because they have been conditioned to believe they are always disappointing everyone
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the new Google icons hurt my brain like my visual processing abilities are beyond maxed out
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{\__/} {\__/} ( • ᴗ•) (• . • ) / > <\ 📋</ v \ can you take this obligation {\__/} {\__/} ( • ᴗ•) (• . • ) 📋< \ /v v \ sure thing, no problem {\__/} ( • - •) / > 📋 shit 📋📋 📋📋📋 📋📋📋📋
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the ADHD urge to spend so much time/energy ✨preparing✨ to do something that you run out of time/energy to actually do it
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i mean, who would’ve guessed a kid who learned to manage the emotions of those around them as a survival skill might, y’know… grow into a hyper-vigilant, people-pleasing adult with poor boundaries whose self-worth is based on their ability to make other people happy
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LIFE HACK: If the person sitting in front of you on a plane leans their seat back to the point that you’re uncomfortable—simply reach up, twist your fan on, and point it straight at the top of their head
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Always watch out for "life hacks" that are actually "fun new ways no one has ever thought to be an asshole before."
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Your words matter.
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the ADHD urge to cry easily because your brain’s emotional intensity dial is set to 150% by default
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They have cards at my doctor’s office now to tell them if you’d prefer not to be weighed 😭😭😭
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did it hurt? when you realized you had to learn to read other people's behavior as a social survival skill, but now you over-think every interaction
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Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics
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Here’s a fixed version of my flowchart with a watermark. It will never be as popular as the bastardized one on FB—but if you’re reading this, you are the special few who know the original artist 😉 RT to support crediting artists and not watering down the #ADHD community 💕
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Made this flowchart today to explain why it takes so long for me to tell stories. My brain can have a hard time distinguishing which thoughts/ideas are more important than others. It gets complicated. 🧠 #ADHD
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the ADHD urge to turn a small task into an overly-ambitious project, only to get so overwhelmed/intimidated by the massive undertaking that you abandon it and never return
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a lot of people think ADHD is just procrastinating things i don't wanna do well, guess what i procrastinate things I ✨DO✨ WANNA DO
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What unhelpful phases have the same energy as “Just get a planner”? I’ll go first: “All you have to do is make a budget and stick to it.”
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You think ADHD is just procrastinating things you don’t wanna do? Well, guess what? I PROCRASTINATE THINGS I ✨DO✨ WANNA DO
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2 years
just a reminder that depression in cis men often goes overlooked because they may present as uncharacteristically irritable, stubborn, aggressive, controlling, or reckless instead of “sad” (1/5)
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Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics
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Starting a "Hard to Swallow Pills" series! I'll be covering various aspects of the #ADHD experience, and hard truths many of us need to remember. First prescription: Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria 💊
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“Why can’t you just—“ I don’t have a procrastination problem. I have a “getting started” problem. The first step is always the hardest. Getting enough willpower to initiate action is difficult. Constant shaming wrecks my self-esteem, and teaches me to always blame myself. #ADHD
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Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics
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“Everyone’s a little ADHD!” 1. No, they’re not. 2. Fuck off.
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the ADHD urge to rely on protein shakes and/or frozen meals because you never have the mental energy to make ‘real’ food
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the ADHD urge to fidget when you’re trying not to interrupt, because waiting your turn to speak when you’ve got something to say makes your brain feel like it’s gonna explode
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did it hurt? when you realized the reason you struggle to maintain boundaries is your deep-rooted need to be liked
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Can you tell that my husband and I both have ADHD? 😂
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ADHD is seeing infinite possibilities of things to do and then getting overwhelmed and not actually starting on any of them
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i cannot begin to describe how frustrating it is to desperately want to read books but not have the concentration levels required to do it
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the ADHD urge to switch topics so fast you give people whiplash
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"Why don't people like me?" Growing up with undiagnosed #ADHD , I struggled to make friends. I was always "too much" for people. Too loud. Too weird. Too annoying. But I deserve friends who love me for exactly who I am... rough edges and all. #ADHDInvasion #ADHDAwarenessMonth
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did it hurt? when you realized you don’t allow yourself to express any negative emotions because you’re afraid people will be mad at you for being mad at them?
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when you finally do the thing you’ve been procrastinating forever and it didn’t actually even take that long so instead of feeling proud of yourself for finally doing the thing you’ve been avoiding your first instinct is to feel stupid and guilty for not doing it sooner
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Been working on how I write emails: “So sorry for the delay” New: “Thanks for your patience” (I FORGOT, BUT YOU CAN DEAL) “What works best for you?“ New: “Could you do __:__?” (MY TIME MATTERS TOO, OKAY) “No problem!” New: “Happy to help!” (YEAH, YOU’RE WELCOME)
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How to wear a face mask without fogging up your glasses 😷👓 #COVID
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ADHD inconsistency in a nutshell: It’s not that I can’t get my shit together. It’s that I can’t ✨keep✨ my shit together.
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the ADHD urge to say you’ll go to bed at a reasonable hour so you can get up early and “seize the day,” only to stay glued to your phone until 2:56AM
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the ADHD urge to avoid tasks that demand long periods of sustained mental focus because your brain can't stop anticipating failure and/or burnout
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‼️ UPDATED VERSION! ‼️ Bottom left used to say “Do you know when I can expect an update by?” and I took off the top part because it didn’t fit, but forgot to re-read it. Nice catch, @Andy_Macster ! Updated file attached. Thanks for letting me know! 😉
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the ADHD urge to spend so much time trying to ✨decide✨ what to work on that you run out of time to actually get anything done
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“You just need to try harder!” “Don’t be lazy.” “Nobody likes doing that stuff.” “Just make a plan & stick to it.” “Set a reminder in your phone.” “It’s not that difficult. Grow up.” Those with #ADHD know how it feels to struggle with basic habits that come easy to other people:
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All or nothing. For me, #ADHD results in a lot of black-or-white thinking. Anything less than perfect feels like a total failure. Breaking even ONE DAY of a streak immediately results in falling off the wagon. I am 100% or 0%, and have a hard time accepting anything in between.
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the ADHD urge to refuse accepting "well, that's how it's always been done" as a sufficient reason to comply with something
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the neurodivergent urge to over-explain things in an attempt to avoid any potential miscommunication because you’ve felt misunderstood your entire life so now it’s really important to you that everyone knows exactly where you’re coming from at all times and even if you know…
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the ADHD urge to say you’re gonna go to bed early, then proceed to stay up until 1:48am
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babe are you okay? you’ve barely touched your bacon and eggs… oh, i see. the syrup from your pancakes got on them and now they���re dead to you
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It took me a long time to realize that other people don’t have to constantly argue/negotiate with their brain and shame themselves in order to do basic, routine household tasks
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did it hurt? when you realized the reason you don’t stand up for yourself is because you’re worried people will be mad at you for being angry (and leave you like everyone else did)
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the ADHD urge to sigh constantly because you forget to breathe when intensely focused on something
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Found this in an old journal and thought someone else might need to hear it today:
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the ADHD urge to spend more time planning to do the thing than it takes to actually do the thing
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me: i need to do the thing brain: it‘ll take SO LONG me: i mean, probs under 5 minutes brain: best not risk it though me: you right, you right
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Quite a few of you asked if I could make a printable version of this to keep at your desk. Always happy to help! 😉
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did it hurt? when you realized your craving for academic achievement had been replaced with a praise kink???
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Dude explaining how he made his first $10 million: 1. Get up at 5:00AM every day 2. 90 minutes of cardio 3. Take a cold shower 4. Journal 5. Schedule out your day 6. Dad owns Fortune 500 company 7. Meditate
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PSA: if you tell someone they are “annoying,” “too much sometimes,” or “good in small doses,” you are doing serious and lasting damage to their self-esteem years of therapy, and i’m still working to stop apologizing for who i am
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“not sending handwritten thank-you notes is lazy and ungrateful” my ADHD means i barely have the executive functioning skills to feed myself, how about you take a seat
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Procrastination is a hard habit to kick. Here are my top 10 tips for finishing what you start:
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i mean, who would’ve guessed a kid that’s criticized 20 times more often than their neurotypical peers might, y’know... grow into a validation-seeking adult with low self-esteem and a crippling fear of failure that manifests as ✨self-sabotaging perfectionism✨
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the ADHD urge to move piles to a different room instead of putting stuff away
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turns out the limit does exist
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⚡️ “ADHD Explained Using Comics” Here's a collection of all my #ADHD comics, graphics, and flowcharts so far, in an easy-to-digest format!
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Think about your *own* ADHD in any way you want. Whatever helps you cope. But... “your ADHD is a superpower, and if you don’t see it that way, you’re just not doing it right”? No. Invalidating others’ struggles/experiences is ✨not a vibe✨ and you won’t convince me otherwise
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the ADHD urge to wake up early and still somehow find a way to be late
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My deep-seated anxiety of annoying others is at the core of my low self-esteem. I can read into anything and everything. A one-word e-mail from my boss? He must be pissed at me. People whispering just out of earshot? They must be talking about me. The list goes on and on. #ADHD
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People with ADHD often struggle with hygiene routines. Sensory issues, boredom, and forgetfulness make it difficult to: 🪥 brush teeth 🦷 floss 🧼 wash face 🚿 shower Share your best ADHD-friendly hygiene tips below 👇
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What people think ADHD impacts: 🍎 school 💼 work What ADHD also impacts: 🧹 chores 🪥 hygiene 💕 relationships 👯‍♀️ friendships 💸 spending 🍽 food intake 🛌 sleep 🍺 substance abuse 😡 emotional reactivity 🤭 oversharing 🗯 interrupting 🙉 auditory processing 📱 screen fixation
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“Why do you have such low self-esteem?” Idk, could have something to do with a lifetime of being criticized? 🤷🏻‍♀️ #ADHD #NeurodiverseSquad
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ADHD isn’t “oh yeah, i get distracted sometimes” it’s getting accidentally sidetracked multiple times while attempting to complete a single task it’s losing hours every day doing things i didn’t mean to be doing if my brain shifts gears even for a SECOND, it’s all over
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little miss “picky eater” who didn’t realize her food aversions stem from taste/texture hypersensitivity and sensory processing issues related to having a neurodivergent brain and not—as others had always insisted—an unwillingness to “grow up” or “try new things”
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did it hurt? when you realized you self-sabotage progress you've made with impulsive decisions you know you'll regret later because deep down you expect yourself to fail and quitting is the only thing you feel like you can control
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the ADHD urge to emotionally implode the second someone starts acting exasperated with you
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the ADHD urge to wake up early and somehow still be late
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PSA: Telling someone they're “annoying,” “too much sometimes,” or “good in small doses,” can cause serious, lasting damage to their self-esteem. Years of therapy, and I’m STILL working to stop apologizing for who I am.
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Having ADHD is trying desperately to make sure nobody misunderstands what you’re trying to say and yet being misunderstood your whole life because no one has taken the time to try to understand where you’re coming from
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