I don’t have to prove myself to others (comic)

Hey hey, greetings from freezing Germany!

A lot has changed in my life recently, so now I get to share more experiences from being in a relationship and meeting new people 👀. Sharing my learnings with you via comics 😂:

Progress video:

I’ve actually been visiting Belgium this week and despite it not being a foreign country for me (family is from Belgium), I’ve needed SO much rest. I tend to think just because I don’t work in a day means I shouldn’t be tired. Travel, noise, having to navigate airports? Nah, can’t understand why I’m tired at all! But the change of scenery was really good for me and I managed to write quite a few comics. Who would’ve thought that not leaving the house and never experiencing real life hinders creativity, huh? 

I’ve been under a lot of pressure to make “great” comics ever since coming back after finishing work on the book, and it just hasn’t felt great. I don’t like “making content to make content” or trying to anticipate what people will like. Now, I’m having much more fun and doing whatever I feel like doing again. Right now, that means a lot of silly jokes, less heavy stuff and more journaling the mind opening things I’ve learnt - mainly things people or my therapist told me that made me stop and realize things about myself. Admittedly, it’s not all directly ADHD and a lot of it is having had a rough childhood on top of ADHD, but I think it’s still relevant, since I think a lot of people having grown up without having had their “otherness” understood and supported in childhood will have felt “othered” - does that make sense?

Maybe I should create another comic “brand”, that’s less ADHD and more trauma, attachment and all that. I’ve been thinking about that for a while. Guess I’ll do it once the time feels right and I feel like I have something important to say.

Here a few different comics I’m currently working on:

As always, thank you so much for your continued support, and again, sorry for being a bit behind on sharing great things for you here. To be honest, I think I might have a big fat burnout from working on the book (never done anything like that before and it’s about 300+ pages of deeply emotional, neurological, fully drawn and colored works).