Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics

i post on Bluesky more than Twitter now: bsky.app/profile/danido… 🦋✨

executive dysfunction got me genuinely unable to tell how long a task will take to complete cuz how tf can i know how many times i’ll get distracted in advance

i either start and never finish or do not start at all

“do you have any allergies?” making appointments

anybody got hacks to stay hydrated when you forget water exists lol

loved one: *self-critical remark* me: would it be okay if i talked about myself that way them: 😑

I wish there was a “I am really sorry for dragging you into shit that should never have been your problem” award

knowing what to do first is hard when all you see are min-max opportunities

@anti_planner *side-eyes two Very Important emails I’ve put off for multiple weeks* 📧👀

ADHD FRIENDS ONLY: What did you plan on getting done this week that just… didn’t happen? (No judgment, we’re all friends here 💖)

ADHD FRIENDS ONLY: How often do you fall asleep on your couch? 🛋️ (Keep it 💯, we’re all friends here.)

is this… being on time??? 🤔

🤢 doing something important + urgent 🌈😍✨🌸 doing something that feels productive but secretly isn’t

ADHD is one of the most painful things to live with. Not just because it's loud, because it's contradictory. You're capable of anything and motivated to do almost nothing. You understand everyone around you, but can't explain what's happening inside yourself. You have brilliant ideas, but no patience to finish a single one. You're a genius who can't handle an email, an extrovert who needs to be completely alone, a person full of advice who can't follow any of it. And the worst part? You know.

@taylortunetracy Ahhh awesome!!! Thank you for recommending it! Also I am a visual person and need a pic because my brain can’t picture the spiral thing 😂

@danidonovan I'm bringing mine to my PHP tomorrow to show the counselors, they love the pages I bring with me! I have a spiral notebook I'm able to pop pages in by slitting the paper within each spiral (felt proud of myself for figuring that out 😅). Hoping they buy a couple for the program!

ADHD FRIENDS ONLY: What “simple” task genuinely takes you an embarrassing amount of time?

chronic pain makes cooking SO much harder 🪫🥄

@_RedBrigade When I tried on a corset for the first time I literally cried from relief. Wild how much difference even a little back support can make?? I should probably get a legit back brace but I feel like it’d be esspensive 😅 +1 to one-pot meals!

@danidonovan I just make giant one-pots of the same two meals and rotate them every 10 days. Cooking day exhausts me though, and I have to wear a back brace in the kitchen because of chronic pain. It's crazy to think that I used to cook every night.

it blows my mind that some people can consistently: - plan their meals - buy groceries - cook the meals they planned meanwhile i’m over here having literal popcorn for dinner 🫠

@ehsea25 we did those for a while but then i got a weird piece of stringy chicken on two separate recipes and my brain revolted and said nevermore

@danidonovan Hello Fresh has been a godsend to our family. But I'm really glad my husband likes to cook cuz i usually end up skipping parts of the instructions.

If you’re consistently inconsistent like me, you’ll probs dig the activity book I designed for procrastinators! ❌ no calendars/dates ❌ no repetition ✅ games ✅ strategies ✅ challenges ✅ comics ✅ cussing ✅ coloring ✅ every page is different ✨anti-planner.com✨

My top ADHD struggles: 📧 Email 📞 Phone calls 📬 Mail 📱 Texting people back ✏️ Writing non-optional things I’m good at communicating ideas, but my brain revolts at “having” to do anything

solving other people’s problems: 🥰 solving my own problems: 🤢