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Published: 2011-03-21 17:16:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 21942; Favourites: 1150; Downloads: 150
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Truuue story.This is the thing which has consumed my life for the past 2 weeks. >_> I originally meant it to be one long strip, but then had to make it into pages for my class just to have a way to print it and present it, but I compiled it back into a long strip for here on teh web.
I am so sick of looking at this thing. So much stress over it and there are a lot of problems I last minute noticed and didn't have time to fix >_< Oh well.
Not really much else to say...
Hope you guys are at least amused by it.EDIT: Daily Deviation? Wooooah! Thanks guys!!
I'm swamped with things to respond to now, but here's some more overall thoughts on the topic that have been brought up in comments:
1 - ADD is more than just procrastination and not being able to focus. Everyone is "a little ADD", yes, but the problem is when its something you're having trouble everyday with most things versus just one thing you don't want to do. You have trouble getting even simple things done, can't follow directions, zone out in the middle of conversations, etc. For more info, I recommend this site: [link]
2 - I'm not necessarily advocating medicine or saying everyone should take them. It's up to the individual and what works for them. They're also not a "cure" - it just gives you more of the boost you need to do what you should. I saw a specialist before going on medication who taught me note-taking/studying methods and time management skills, but my meds help me to follow through with what I know I have to do more consistently.
Anyway, thanks again for the DD
I'll try to get to everyone's comments eventually...but there sure are a lot. o-o
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For years I struggled with ADHD, and people telling me to just control it is crap!! Like you, NOTHING got done if I didn't take my medicine! Luckily when I got older I was able to control it! This, is beautiful!!! I love the expressions, the poses! Absolutely amazing!! Congratulations on the DD! Well deserved!
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Thank you very much! 
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Thanks
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I actually laughed. I have ADHD, but I stopped taking my Ritlan years ago. I kind of hated the fact I was being medicated for something soo small.
I went to a behavior specialist, last year as I recalled in senior year of high school, and he said after the test my brain has the capicity of a College student. It proves that you don't have to take meds, and ADHD or ADD to me is just a poor excuse to not getting your work done.
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I wasn't diagnosed until just before my senior year. None of my friends believed I had it when I told them because I still got good grades haha But the places where my ADD was most causing me problems were more to do with how it affected other areas of my life than just school (school was part of it, but not majorly). I always hate when people try to use it as an excuse...I've never done that and never plan to. If I screwed up and didn't get something done, I still have to take responsibility for it - ADD or no ADD. >:-| Oddly enough I've always been better at making sure I get things done than some people I know who DON'T have ADD!
Anywho, thanks for commenting.
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Welcome. ANd yea, I can't remeber when I was diagnosed. I saw the same doctor as a small child, and I can't remember him.
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haha they never had me try that one, but I haven't heard anyone say anything positive about it! The first meds they did have me try had awful side effects for me though...glad the one I'm on now doesn't.
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I. . .almost feel bad for laughing, but I can't help the chuckle. I went through similar with my bi-polar, except I tried to refuse I had it, got forced on meds, they made it worse and noticeable to me, stopped taking any meds because the time on them subdued my swings enough that it allowed me to identify my triggers after and realize that I did indeed have the disorder. . . .then came 4 years of learning to manage it without meds. It's hard, it's no walk in the park at all but considering the meds all messed with me due to shaky health and a chemical sensitivity my body can't seem to get over, well, I didn't have much choice! I am a pretty strong advocate of avoiding meds unless the person has no other choice, simply due to the health risks but, well, for some people the meds help, and if they aren't having reactions to them like I did, well, hey, it make things that much easier for them.
Anyways, now that I've rambled, great work on the comic strip, you actually managed to make something so serious a bit humorous. Being able to laugh at one's one situation can be a great thing. Congrats on the DD as well!
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Thanks! ^_^
I am usually against taking meds if I don't need them too. I especially dislike when people are quick to subscribe antidepressants because I always felt like that wasn't going to make anything better - it's not treating why you're depressed to begin with. (which I now know that when I was depressed so many years ago, it was because of all the problems of my ADD ~_~ If only someone had figured it out then..) Anyway, in this case, I had seen a behavioral therapist and that did help - as did pure determination to get better at time management haha. But still, I think at this point in my life they are a very good aid to me. And although the first thing they tried to give me had bad side effects, this one at least doesn't! XD
Anywho, thanks again!
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Hey, at least the ones you got now help you. Oh, they treating the wrong symptoms, that happens far, far too often for my liking, they are so fast to shove a pill at someone. If other methods don't work then I understand looking to medication, but they seem to use it as a first effort far, far too often. Glad to hear you've found something that works for you and got it in ya to manage it. It's no fun dealing with mental disorders but overcoming them, with or without meds, it can give you so much pride. (I say overcoming but, I think ya know what I mean, they'll always be there but living despite them alone is enough to give anyone a degree of pride)
And you are very welcomed.
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No one gets between me and my meds. I have been known to savagely accost Pharmacists who are slow to fill my prescription. All those "You just need to focus" people need to spend five hours in my brain, so they can live with the crack addicted hamsters inside my head. It drives me nuts that my disability is constantly discounted by people just because its invisible. If I were in a wheelchair, no one would tell me to "Just get up and walk!" Happiness is found in the peace and quiet that only happens for me when I take my meds. I am so with you sister!
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I agree! 
It's a weird situation that my sister had always done really well in school until she went to college, and when they were trying to figure out why she was suddenly failing was when they learned she had ADD. My mom and her doctor wanted me tested too since my sister and I are a lot alike, but I was already not doing great with school. Buuut before I was diagnosed, I had to deal with people telling me I was just lazy or being difficult a lot. No matter how much I tried to explain that I WANTED to do work and couldn't understand why it was just so difficult, they didn't get it. This led to me being very depressed for a while...>_> This had also made me stubborn about accepting the diagnosis and taking my meds because by this point I was convinced that everything people had told me was true. /rambling
Life is much better now at least! Thanks for commenting!
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Lol comprehended lulz. My friend has a mild case of that- and he didn't have his medicine for a week and he went insane... xD Sometimes medication isn't good eh o3o
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hahaha XD Medicine is a funny thing...and we sometimes forget what life is like without them LOL
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haha the "oh my god!" part makes me chuckle
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glad I could make you laugh :3 That was my favorite panel to draw
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I have ADD too and I know what you mean meds are really important for me because I've been on them since i was eight and until now i've been on a different medication from the only one that actually ever worked and i felt like this all the time. I now have my (really) old meds back and i'm doing incredibly well in college. I love this cartoon its so true
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Glad to hear you're doing great with school; that's awesome!
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thanks so much for replying 
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haha yeah I've only finally gotten through most of them. And then I started thanking to people who decided to watch me, but I had to stop because dA thought I was spamming people XD
I don't meet many others who really get it either. Though some of them like to think they do. ~_~; Thanks again for the kind words!
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This is... not so much uninspiring, but more like reverse-inspiring. This is probably the most triumphant anyone has ever looked when they decided they would CONTINUE taking medications, rather than the usual stopping medications.
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Wow, that is so me. Okay, it's actually ADHD, but still. I also take medication for it, and, as you said (in the artist's comments) I don't need it, but it does indeed help a bit. That said, while my note-taking skills and study habits are up to par, my time management skills really suck. XD Ehehe, I'm getting better though.
Hmm, such a reaction out of me, no wonder this is a DD. Heh, congrats!
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haha it's all a process! I found note-taking and study skills a lot easier to learn than time management as well. Still working on it, but I'm much better now!
& Thank you~!
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it was funny, but i feel for ya D: add must be terrible
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Yeah, its not always fun...but it was worse before getting diagnosed because then it was full of depression about not being able to understand why I was having all these problems, people telling me it was because I was lazy and believing them, etc. D: At least things are finally better now!
Thanks for commenting
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I know how you feel. Hell, I have adult ADHD and Bipolarism- Mania, thus, it's sucks to take meds for the rest of my life, no matter what. Even the late nighters are a bitch.
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Aw, I'll bet! Best wishes!
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I know how you feel. 
Anyways, I liked your comic. Very relatable. You had some great perspective shots of your character in there, too.
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Yeah, the medicine is pretty expensive. The pharmacist once didn't believe I even had health insurance because it barely took anything off the cost! D:
Good luck with getting things done! You can try to find ways to make the assignments more interesting for yourself. I found that using multiple colors helps me take notes because it helps me both keep them more organized, and also more engaged in doing it. If you can find some way to make it more interesting to you, it helps a lot.
And thanks for the kind comment!
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oh god D: that's a lot!!
thank =/ I'll try. That's a good technique! I actually really love school, so it might not be as hard for me as others, but that's not to say that I don't get easily distracted! I guess I'll deal with it until a little time passes. I don't want to ask them for money right when they have to pay for another thing that I've asked for recently. It's okay. 
You are very welcome.
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lol that's okay XD I've enjoyed talking to others about their experiences in the comments for this one, it's been a lot of fun! 
I always liked school too, but some subjects less than others XD My friends didn't believe that I had ADD because I got mostly good grades haha I forgot about assignments a lot though, especially throughout elementary school. I think by the time I got to high school I had mostly learned on my own how to compensate for all my forgetfulness and how to take better notes...not to mention looking like I was paying attention even though I totally wasn't LOL
Good luck & thanks again~! ^_^
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Wow. You've just described my life. We have very similar experiences. The only reason I found that I had ADD was from my fifth grade teacher, who now happens to be the head of my school. I've never met a better teacher in the entirety of my life. She noticed that when I was in class, it would look like I was listening, but she could tell that my mind just wasn't in the classroom, but in who-knows-where-else. I really owe a lot to her. Anyways, I get a lot of comments from people who say things like (this happened like two days ago), "We all procrastinate! Why do people with ADD have advantages just because they took a test for it?" It frustrates me because they wouldn't know the first thing about ADD.
In a way, ADD has probably been my driving force in my education. In order to compensate for it, I've had to learn how to pay attention in the dullest of classes, take helpful notes, and even organize well. I've probably become a much better student for it. I guess there's an upside.
Thank you
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Same same!
Man, reading everyone's comments on this image has been a real eye-opener! Lots of people with similar experiences or very different ones, and a few people who had some really great teachers that helped them figure it all out.
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Some people are so stupid about medicine. Especially older teenagers, I feel. Some hear others complain about society relying to much on medicine so they jump on the bandwagon, or they think they can handle it just with willpower yet never do, or they have tried medicine in the past that didn't work (sometimes because they didn't take it regularly) or had noticeable unfavorable side effects.
I was exactly like this. But then I started taking medicine for some condition of mine and I came to realize it had done away with the anxiety I'd had my whole life (not even the main reason I was taking the medicine!). I suddenly realized I wasn't feeling unexplainably anxious all the time, and that all my past memories were tainted with feeling of anxiety attached to them. It's great to be without it, and I never realized I had it so bad in the first place. I also have ADD (though I haven't found a good fit medicine-wise for that yet, nor am I worrying about it too much right now) so I relate a lot to this comment.
Something that annoys me about ADD is how some people treat it like you're just lazy or everyone has it if you tell them. It's made me less willing to be serious about it and try to get help, even though it's had such a negative effect on my schoolwork and so many other aspects of my life. : S
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Derp, teenages are stupid. I'm barely past teenager age and I'm still dumb sometimes LOL (dumb and stubborn as hell 
Before I was diagnosed, I was often told that my poor performance in school, "irresponsibility"/forgetfulness, etc. were all because I was lazy. I believed them and this led to me being very depressed...and then later when this came up, it was for some reason easier for me to believe that my problems were because of problems with my character than because I had ADD (which I think is partly what made me stubborn against taking them, and than that paired with the antidepressants they had tried to give me back in the day had done nothing). My oldest sister and dad don't really believe ADD exists, and they were people whose opinions I valued a lot, so that didn't help either. Oh, life :S At least things are much better now!
Thanks for commenting. I wish you the best!
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I completely know how you feel. Sometimes I even feel like it's just me being lazy, until, when I give every ounce of my concentration on something, I still get distracted. ADD is seen as a mere excuse all too often.
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I think I might have ADD
anyway, congrats on the DD and great comic
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ADD is an interesting thing...you'll be very inattentive to some things, and yet if something really grabs your attention you'll become so incredibly focused you'll be COMPLETELY oblivious to everything around you. One I time I got so caught up in a project that even though I had cooked myself dinner, I completely forgot to eat it - and I wasn't even at all aware of it until hours later. o_o I didn't believe I had it even when they told me until I actually learned more about the disorder and then realized that, holycrap, it really was me to a T
Anyway, thanks!
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Hey, I understand. I have to be taking medication for my ADD, too. I also have ADHD as well.
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