13. The ADHD-Gap
Page 1
[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “The ADHD-Gap”
[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “between wanting to do something and actually doing it.”
[Panel 2] ALIEN: ""I should put that away sometime…""
[Panel 3] CAPTION: “Actually putting it away”
[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “Why does it happen?”
[Panel 5] NARRATOR: “I’ll explain it with squirrels:”
[Footer] SIGNATURE: “Check my bio for more comics”
[Footer] SIGNATURE: “ADHD Alien”
Page 2
[Title] TITLE: “ADHD Reward Cycle”
[Panel 1] HEADER: “Non-ADHD”
[Panel 2] NARRATOR: “Our brain evaluates if an action will be worth spending our resources (energy, time) on it.”
[Panel 3] NARRATOR: “Last time we felt rewarded, so imagining doing it already releases dopamine.”
[Panel 3] LABEL: “+Dopamine”
[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “Thanks to the dopamine, our brain starts the action.”
[Panel 5] NARRATOR: “Once done, we will feel rewarded and our brain remembers this.”
[Panel 5] LABEL: “+Dopamine”
[Panel 6] HEADER: “ADHD”
[Panel 7] NARRATOR: “In ADHD, there is a lack of dopamine, so our brain might not feel rewarded for finishing a task.”
[Footer] SIGNATURE: “Check my bio for more comics”
[Footer] SIGNATURE: “ADHD Alien”
Page 3
[Title] TITLE: “ADHD Reward Cycle”
[Title] SUBTITLE BANNER: “ADHD”
[Panel 1] NARRATOR: ”* Without reward, our dopamine tanks don’t get refilled.”
[Panel 2] SQUIRREL (THE BRAIN): “It wasn’t worth the cost, don’t do it again!”
[Panel 2] NARRATOR: “That’s where arguing with our brain starts.”
[Panel 3] NARRATOR: “ADHD hinders our ability to look forward to and be motivated by future rewards.”
[Panel 4] LABEL: “+Dopamine”
[Panel 4] LABEL: “+Dopamine”
[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “ADHD hinders our ability to look forward to and be motivated by future rewards.”
[Footer] FOOTNOTE: “*Additionally, with ADHD, Dopamine might not show as much effect than for someone without ADHD.”
[Footer] FOOTNOTE: “*A lack of dopamine can have various causes, including increased dopamine re-uptake.”
[Footer] SIGNATURE: “Check my bio for more comics”
[Footer] SIGNATURE: “ADHD Alien”
Part of ADHD Alien comics.