adding to my tags because iāve been thinkin a lot about the post i just reblogged and have more thoughts:
iāll be real, the more i saw āhey adhd influencers are so annoyingā the more i worried that i was unconsciously contributing to the spreading reputation of adhd folks as annoying and over-pathologizing every symptom they experience
and then i realized. i am not a goddam influencer or life coach or representative. obviously i have some obligation as someone who cares about myself and the people that like my comics to not spread harmful ideology or blatant misinformation but i never intended myself to be a āāincrease your productivity!!ā blog OR a āif you have XYZ you have adhd!ā blog. and i do this for fun, and originally started this blog bc i had a lot of internalized shame and self loathing about my adhd and thought if i could make it funny i might have less of that. letās get real! and it worked!
iāve obviously done this kind of thingā (hey these symptoms might be adhd!) a lot before in my life & on this blog, but thereās more to it than trying to be an āinfluencerā or whatever. a term that didnāt even exist when i started this blog!
i felt very isolated trying to find out if i had any mental problems & what have you originally because of large advice (etc) blogs with staunchly anti self Dx views at the time
so i overcorrected when i DID get dxed and tried to validate everyone who was like me. and of course. not the best course of action always for the ol mental health. tried to be the source of positivity and jokes that i didnāt see because the online adhd presence was near non-existent.
and anyway. i make a lot of fun of myself & the way m brain works in my comics obviously but it is not my obligation to... how do you say.... not be annoying online.
because if folks interpret MY little jokes as a strict guide to diagnosis. thatās on them, really, not me. i also believe āmaking adhd your entire personalityā is a non-issue. so what if people find out they have it and get over excited with identifying as adhd. saying this as someone who DID do it.Ā criticism of this gives the same vibes as people being annoyed that young queers make ābeing queerā their whole personality. im very obviously more than a guy with adhd, and id reckon other adhd comic artists are too. (im friends with a lot of them!) itās fine to post about it online.
anyway. i just donāt take myself too seriously and iām a comic artist for myself first! and you know what, iāve been considered annoying my entire life. what do i care if a few more folks think iām annoying. neurotypical or not
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