About this page. Each weekend in the interactive ADHD Awareness Month journal became a double-page spread: a comic panel, the weekend’s written reflections and a small reflective mini-game. This page brings the five spreads together. The comic panels and mini-game wording come from the journal; the written reflections are linked rather than repeated. This introduction and the headings are new.
The mini-games are played inside the journal. They are not scored: each one is a short prompt to pause and think.
Weekend One: meet Barry and follow the web (3–4 October)
Two longer weekend entries give us room to meet Barry properly and replace judgement with curiosity.
From the interactive journal
Read the written reflections: So… Let Me Introduce You to Barry · I Thought This Was Just Me.
Mini-game: One decision at a time
Choose what you would do with each message. There is no prize for inbox zero.
- A two-minute factual reply
- A complex request needing thought
- Something another person owns
- An obsolete notification
For each one, choose: Do now · Diary · Delegate · Delete.
Make four intentional decisions. Intentional beats perfect.
Weekend Two: what this week has taught me (10–11 October)
Two reflective entries connect sensory overload, misunderstanding, rejection, rumination and people pleasing — and look beyond the Monsters themselves.
From the interactive journal
Read the written reflections: What This Week Has Taught Me · More Than the Monsters.
Mini-game: Connect three tabs
Pick any three. Your task is to explain the connection — there is deliberately no single correct answer.
- Risk
- Sensory needs
- Best interests
- Inbox
- Supervision
- Lived experience
- Reasonable adjustment
- Coffee
What connects them?
Weekend Three: strengths, costs and the Emotional Sponge (17–18 October)
Saturday explores the uncomfortable overlap between strengths and difficulties. Sunday adds the Emotional Sponge as a bonus Monster about empathy, absorption and boundaries.
From the interactive journal
Read the written reflections: When the Things I’m Good at Trip Me Up.
Mini-game: Reality reboot
Hyperfocus has been running for a while. Check four things before deciding whether to keep going.
- What time is it?
- Have I had water?
- Have I eaten?
- What is my body telling me?
Reboot complete. Now choose deliberately: continue, pause or stop.
Weekend Four: the work you do not see (24–25 October)
A weekend about hidden effort, masking, adjustments and having more choice about where energy goes.
From the interactive journal
Read the written reflections: What You Don’t See · Unmasking Isn’t Taking the Mask Off.
Mini-game: Underneath the presentation
Select an outward presentation, then consider more than one possible experience underneath it.
- Calm and agreeable
- Very professional
- Quiet in the meeting
For each one, choose: Comfortable · Processing · Masking · Overloaded.
The point is possibility, not diagnosis from presentation.
The Monsters’ Ball (31 October)
The month closes by bringing the whole cast together: not defeated or fixed, but better understood.
From the interactive journal
Read the written reflections: The Monsters’ Ball.
Mini-game: Choose your route
Pick the route that would work for you today. Every route reaches the same outcome.
- Plan it out
- Explore & adapt
- Step by step
- Creative route
- Accessible route
Every route is a valid route. The outcome matters; identical process does not.