I hated this exercise.
It was far too ambiguous and open-ended. And honestly, my day-to-day involves me sitting for hours in one room. Some days I don't speak to anyone. It doesn't exactly make for a narrative. I get what the exercise is trying to do but I think that it's not structured enough.
There are a number of people in the ADHD community who tell their lived experiences publicly. Some of my favourites are from ADHD Alien. This is the kind of comic that resonates with me about how to talk about "a day in the life".
I also enjoy the day-in-the-life comics like those done on 24-hour comics day. But this comic didn't seem to want to be that explicitly - I didn't know what I should be doing. Intrinsically I don't think that this exercise is very neurodiverse friendly. I did the best that I could, having my sketchbook with me on my office desk, trying to remember to write down thoughts or feelings as they came to me. I managed three pages.
I then scanned these in and chopped and manipulated the layout of the doodles and notes to try and put them into some narrative form. It didn't really form one narrative, more like a few trains of thought, but I did my best to make them all make a bit more sense. I placed them all into an image about the size of A4.
Yeah, so not the way I wanted to end the last exercise of this section, but honestly I am glad to see the back of this one and I will have to explore self-expression in my own way on my own time.
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