I never suspected that I would find a sensible comic book about neurodivergent people, so My Brain is Different was a pleasant surprise. This is a collection of stories of people who are on the autism spectrum, have ADHD or other developmental disorders, presented with a huge dose of empathy and a pinch of humor.
Each chapter presents the path to diagnosis (often only when the protagonsits are adults) and everyday struggles with functioning within a society used to one way of looking at the world and with frequently coexisting diseases, such as depression. There are parents trying to best support their children who are on the spectrum, teenagers failing at school, (unsuccessful) attempts to embrace the chaos of ADHD.
You won’t find any medical advice here, but you can find yourself or your loved ones in the characters, as well as try to see the world through the eyes of people for whom things obvious to everyone else are a mystery. Perhaps, thanks to reading this manga, you will think a moment longer before calling someone “lazy”, “unmanageable” and “forgetful” and will try to look at your surroundings with a greater dose of empathy.