Pina ✨ ADHD Alien

@adhd-alien.bsky.social

📕PRE-ORDER my Graphic Novel: ✨Feeling like an ADHD Alien ✨http://adhd-alien.com ⭐️Releases Sept 15 ⭐️

To bring this back to the book, it resonates so deeply with my experience that I am very literally brought to tears by scenes like this - the absolute heartbreak of someone hating themself for never seeming to be enough.

SADNESS

Just finished reading @adhd-alien.bsky.social 's book and I feel so seen! I don't have ADHD myself (although I got very close to a diagnosis) but a lot of this stuff also applies to autism. Thank you, Pina, for making this book! I can use this to communicate stuff to people! ❤️

Spread of Pina Varnel's book Feeling like an ADHD Alien.

It reads:
The superpower label was like putting a ribbon on a wound. If I am not allowed to voice my pain and heal, the wound will rot and spread. Before I can internalize praise, I need to feel understood for who I am with all my problems. I don't want to keep feeling like an alien by pretending I'm gifted and everything is perfect. All my life I have been measuring myself by other people's standards. Too much. Too little. And when people try to cheer me up by telling me I have a superpower, not only does it feel like I have to meet their expectations, I have to exceed them. It makes me feel like I'm not supposed to even be struggling. Like I'm all alone again.

Scrambling to get ready for this because this 3 day event starts MONDAY?? I'm so excited to show you all of the new little guys voiced by my friends, brand new activities, and new merch! This is a stream event like no other, so you won't wanna miss it!! Join the fun here on Mon Sep 28-Wed Sep 30!!

Promotional Text: Plunoia Palooza mon sep 28-wed sep 30. Voice acting + preloading timer. suBEANthon 3 monday oct 5-? a week to add as much time as you want... incentives, merch, giveaways

Spotted it today at a Thalia in Baden-Württemberg in the english literature section! There are only two copies left now 😄

A photo of a bookstore shelf with various mental health books, featuring "Feeling like an ADHD Alien" in the center.

I love Pina's work in the same way I love the work of Schultz & Watterson. Kiki is such a sweet, endearing character. She fosters an immediate sense of familiarity & affection, which naturally helps immensely in a work like this! I absolutely love these frames from chapter 1! ☺️❤️ #adhd #adhdalien

A panel from chapter 1 of Pina Varnel's "Feeling Like an ADHD Alien" showing the main character, Kiki, becoming bored and distracted, fiddling with and chewing on her hair as she waits for a pot of water to boil.

After following @adhd-alien.bsky.social for about 4 years now I'm overjoyed to finally have the opportunity to read her long awaited graphic novel, which as irony would have it had actually arrived at my place days ago only for me to just find out today when I noticed no one bothered to pick up

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@adhd-alien.bsky.social has written/drawn an amazing book, which left me crying in many places at how beautiful it is and how seen I felt while not leaving me feeling left out when my own experience has been different. This is a book that I think a lot of people would benefit from reading. 5 stars.

A bright pink and blue book titled "Feeling like an ADHD Alien by Pina Varnel" on a mossy wooden table top