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2024 Submissions
Hidden ADHD
Seemingly ordinary girl seeks connection and understanding through daily fear; awareness reveals the vibrant garden that has always been near!
Beautiful Bee Brain
ADHD often makes me feel like I have bees in my brain, buzzing around with random thoughts and impulses.
White Octopuses Portrait
Art of all kinds feeds my squirrels and calms them. I’ve been able to make a business out of it! I’m told that’s the Superpower of ADHD 🙂
Masking me
I’m under attack by the world, the real me a skinny traumatised girl crying in emotional agony, trapped in an obese woman. I mask to protect her.
Between Space and Time
I often get asked, “What are you thinking?” During a night of insomnia, I drew my answer to that question on a touch screen.
The Importance of ADHD Awareness
The key decorated with a brain represents how awareness and knowledge unlock insight into how ADHD affects people.
All Under Control (sort of)
This image illustrates how sometimes I wish to hide my ADHD struggles. I tell myself that all is under control even when I don’t really feel like it.
Musings of an ADHDer
I thought about what it might be like to walk around inside my brain during one of my creative moments and made this using SeaArt AI app on my phone.
Waiting on Myself
Simple tasks can seem hopeless. Here I am in my room that I’ve let spiral out of control. I’ve procrastinated on an article due tomorrow. It’s 5am.
2023 Submissions
Norepinephrine And Dopamine Go On Vacation
It can feel like vacation when we give ourselves a break. A little humor goes a long way.
The Day Will Come
Sharing common struggles is an invitation to understand each other better.-
MOM IS MY WORLD
she is adhd. she says always hold me with your arms. Teach me everything. I am very safe in this world. always be with me, Mom I love you 
ADHD Cat
This is Cat. She has ADHD and she is saying things that people aren’t expecting.
Thought Zephyrs
A depiction of the little thought streams that the ADHD mind travels on where disconnected concepts converge and flow. The relentlessly busy mind.
Galaxy Brain
The ADHD brain is like a galaxy: it swirls and moves constantly and never stops creating a myriad of new and exciting ideas!
2022 Submissions
Fun House
A peek inside my brain at all the colorful weird rabbit holes I fall into daily. My curiosity is a never ending trippy magical madness.
Sensory Overload
When info enters my brain, it feels like it gets scrambled. Some of it is amplified. Some minimized. Some lost. Not sure what’s important or not.
My life is a mess
My life is a mess with a lot going on my mind depression and anxiety and panic attacks and PTSD and ADHD
You Should’ve Feared Me More
Avatar: The Last Airbender circulates consistently amist silent desire to watch a new show. I’ve feared my ADHD would consume my humanity.
How do I get someone to listen to me….HEY I’M AN ADULT WITH ADHD
When I found out that coloring helps me with my ADHD. It helps me to focus, concentrate, wind my brain down, and listen to someone when they talk.
What I do reflects back to others.
As an adult with ADHD my Photography is an escape I’m always looking for windows into a world I felt I never belonged in.
Embrace
Designing and cross stitching my ‘body landscapes’ is how I can hyperfocus on something that brings me joy and that I can use as a creative outlet.
Focus Doodles
This is a compilation of my doodles, drawn to help me focus in meetings and classes. Except for the doodle of my dog Ryder, the people are imaginary.
Red clovers
I took this picture today, wondering in the middle of a field. I felt calm and free and forgot all about my ADHD. Sometimes it’s nice to let go.
Sowing Still 2
Showing myself my emotions.
Allows me to sow the seed
Now grounds me
Allowing me to grow.
My ADHD my work is a little manic and beautiful.
IC434
The photo depicts a complex of nebulae in the Orion constellation.
Astrophotography is my ADHD hyper-focus driven passion and I love to share it
Caged In Class
My work shows the way I feel in the class room setting, defeated, and caged, unable to express myself the way I know I was born too. Let me out!!!
Dichotomy of ADHD
I wanted to show both sides of ADHD positive and negative. A single person could be experiencing both at any given moment.
Adhd:
It’s very adhd and me
I love have having adhd but my picture represents the brain looking thing [Read more]
Alison’s Room
My installation is the realisation have ADHD. My ex wrote a song “Alison’s Room.” Which is played on repeat. Im claiming my room.
Trapped
This painting I created, represents myself being/feeling trapped in my overactive thoughts and unable to find the exit to peace
ADHD Feelings
It explains everything that goes on in my head and body because of my ADHD
Where to start
Where to start? Make a list. Where did I put my colored pens? That’s a lot of starting points! This is how it looks in my head. I need to get dressed.
The Stance
This stance is my beautiful daughter’s way of holding in all the chaos in her brain so she can keep her impulses at bay.
Tupac on math homework
Instead of taking ADHD medications, my teachers allowed me to doodle. This is one of my mom’s favorite pictures that she found on my math homework.
Digital Face
This represents how it feels being a woman with hyperactive and “unusual” tendencies from ADHD. I’ve really had to work hard to like myself again
You Matter
The image attached is a short poem I wrote about ADHD, in my experience.
Self-Portrait in Orange
The ADHD letters are easy to miss if you’re distracted by cool pose. Sometimes, you only see ADHD symptoms if you know how to look for them.
ADHD, but make it pop art
Initially inspired by phrenology, it turned into the multiple ideas, visions, passions, interests etc that having ADHD presents.
ADHD
My 6 year old’s self portrait. Medication bottle in one hand and pill in the other. She was just diagnosed with adhd and is processing through art.
My OC Distractaria
This is my OC Distractaria
I made it based on my adhd!
She has the power to distract anyone, and we’ll she distracts people she is also distract
Jaden
My ADHD son some times paints and it usually just stripes of colors. This time I made him stop to admire his own art and he came back with MORE!
Rainbow Tears
The quote “The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears” is how I feel with living with ADHD. I drew this age 11 before my diagnosis.
Positive fun
Positive imagination! Health and safety. Mind never stops.Adrian
Drift, a #PsycheGremlin
Drift is the gremlin with a whirlwind attention span… One of my self-care cartoons that, since my recent diagnosis, makes much more sense to me!
Indecisive Feelings
Tangled up by all the thoughts spinning in your head. It’s like fighting with yourself, you can’t decide because you want it to be both ways.
Blaire Postman: Struggling Chartist
It’s a picture used for my solo comedic ADHD show meant to encapsulate both the great abilities ADHDers have, and some of the challenges we manage.
Minority.
My experience of coming to terms with my ADHD during lockdown. watercolour on paper, A3.
Previous Submissions
My Inner Strength
I took this photo of myself practicing ballet. I chose this image because I look sad which shows my struggles, but I am also strong and creative too.
Inside My Head
In this image I try to visualize what’s going on in my head by capturing my creativity while also representing the feeling of alienation.
Pink UnicornThis is an acrylic painting I made for my daughter this summer 2020. I am diagnosed with ADHD, MDD and GAD.
Candle in the Wind
My ADHD means that I hyperfocused on this digital painting for 24-26 hours (give or take); because that’s the only way I could make sure I finished.
The Heart and Brain of ADHDHi, my name is Gabriel and I am an 8 year old with ADHD. My picture that I drew is my heart and brain with ADHD.
my ADHD brain
My brain is very special because I am also gifted, in my way.
Music
I love doodling and I made this for a Noel Fielding art challenge in lockdown.
The Tall Green Tree
I am four years old. This story is about the seasons changing and my learning how to control myself being bored. So I attempted to draw and color.
My ADHD senses
I’m trying to illustrate how my ADHD feels for me and what I imagine it looks like. I often find it easier to communicate my feelings through art.
Awareness
My minds a mess, squirrel moments often, always in the clouds, and full of crazy ideals. My awareness.
Too many tabs open
my ADHD brain often had to many tabs open!
I am 5
This artwork is a portrait of my son aged 5 when we were going through diagnosis and the drama we dealt with at pre-school then starting school.
Vista
My world is intensely colorful and ever-changing. Sometimes the chaos ignites a spark, which grows into a flame and brings some light into this world.
Lost in Chaos
I have had ADHD my whole life. Not Diagnosed Till age 25. I am now 45 this drawing was when I medicated I am now back on Dexamphetamine
Try Different
I would fail to manage my symptoms – regardless of “how hard I tried”. New approaches and self awareness have made a HUGE difference for me.
ADHD Awareness Month Cookies
My husband got diagnosed with ADHD three weeks ago. I found out October is ADHD awareness month and wanted him to know that I support him!
Beyond the Fog
To go beyond the fog of one’s own mind into clarity is a rare occurrence, but once there, the beauty found is nothing short of remarkable.
Dancing Doodle
A piece I made while in a state of flow, or hyper-focus, capturing my essence of mind during a hyperactive spell.
Think Outside the Box
When measured up to Neurotypical standards, the beauty that exists outside the box for many with ADHD can sometimes be missed and underappreciated.Diana Moquin
(OceanVenti)
reVeriE
When you can’t pick a color or a subject… paint anyway
To Do
I try to put my life into words… An empty attempt to organize my thoughts and daily Todos.
This is thatMichelle A Passey
Pen doodle in a watercolor tray
I made this at school because bored, mild vandalism. It symbolizes the overwhelming responsibilities of life clouding around me while I’m tranquil.Sasterisk
Embrace your gifts!!
I have lived with ADHD my whole life. It has presented some challenges, but I made it through. Love and embrace the gifts that ADHD has given you!!
Looking up
This is an acrylic painting of mine. Painting is something I discovered as an adult. I never knew I could do it. Its the greatest escape I know of.Jodi
My Escaping thoughts
I made this collage trying to represent how I always feel like my thoughts are escaping of my head, also feeling súper héroe with my diagnosis.Evelyn Cohen
Dancing through ADHD
This photo is about persistence, strength and becoming confidant with myself, regardless of any obstacles I have with ADHD.Gianna @gia5678_dancer
The Struggle is Real
I created this awareness logo in an attempt to showcase a little bit of what having ADHD feels like.Rebecca
Beauty of the Deep
Hi painting and drawing are the things that I love to do and I express myself through art. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 5 years and 7 mos.Ram Antonio Rubinos
One of my many ADHD super powers
My adhd gives me spiderman powers.JPs super powers
ADHD is a gift!!
It took a while to understand that my adhd was a gift. We have great qualities like creativity & enthusiasm. ADHD is a gift that makes us special.B
ADHTree
My trees grew out of high school boredom and blossomed into art, one tiny dot at a time. Harnessing my extra energy, I created something beautiful.Beth Prieto
Please get to know the difference
Please get to know the difference between neurological driven behaviour and naughty behaviour.Lou Brown
Head In The Clouds
I took this virtual portrait in Second Life and edited it in Photoshop. I wanted to express the brain fog I feel with ADHD. Signed with my Avatar nameMaddie Diker
Flow, Meditate, Find Inner Peace
This is a form of meditative practice that I and my clients explore in our sessions on well-beingManpreet
ADHD and Me
This photo was a way of displaying ADHD and how my mind works. Made with Lego.Petra Leary
Beautifully Broken with Painful PurposeTina Y Washington
ADHD and other “Gifts”
This is a relief carving out of Linoleum. Then, I make a limited number of hand printed copies. I am a printmaker and I have ADHD.Nadiyah Najah Rodgers
Katie’s Kaleidoscope Tinted World
My image hopefully portrays my ADHD busy brain. This is a reflection of how many thoughts my head is full of and how hard it is to pick one out to concrete one on at a time.Kate-EH
Working with what I was given.
I am a nurse with ADHD. Bed side nursing didn’t work for my brain. I still had a passion to help others so I built this float using PILL BOTTLES. Work with what you were givenDawn Mango
The human brain “my brain mom”
This is a picture my 10yr old daughter drew over the weekend. She handed it to me and said “Mom, this is how my brain works”! She has an absolutely beautiful mind!Lilliana
ADHD Is my StrengthThroughout my life I have viewed ADHD as my strength in life. So I got the awareness ribbon on my bicep to symbolize that.Zak Zippert
A glimpse inside
Ive been dealing with ADHD for my entire life. Many people dont understand it or make light of it. This is “A Glimpse inside my mind”. Chaos, frustration & BeautyCrystal
The experience of ADHD in the classroom
What the student hears from well-meaning educators and parents, what the student manages internally, all while sitting in math class. ADHD is not a problem of intelligence.Cindy Goldrich, Ed.M., ADHD-CCSP
Hyper-Focus
This snapshot was taken at my client’s office. Just when he went to washroom, i found myself bored. While looking around I observed this & I grabbed the opportunity to clickMp Mitra
ADHD Is my Strength
Developed for my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/janeson59 – An empath living with ADD, OCD, CPTSD, and… Look! A kitty!janeson59
