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Bex Ollerton @ Thought Bubble Profile picture
Bex Ollerton @ Thought Bubble
@Schnumn
(She/her) Eisner nominated! Comics about ADHD, autism and mental health ✦ Author of Lavender Clouds and SENSORY: Life on the Spectrum ✦ Rep'd by @Literary_tara
Sep 11 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A lot of people will be starting art school for the first time this week, and I wanted to make a lil thread of things I wish I knew before starting that might be helpful during this exciting and frightening time. I had a VERY MIXED time in artschool but I do have tips!🧵 Learn to accept critique. The more you get, the less it'll sting. Crit will be a big part of your artschool experience AND your art career. Try to separate your own intentions and ego from your work when receiving crit and see things from their POV
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
This Autism Acceptance Month, I am begging you to stop QRTing shitty takes and putting them on the TL. Your dunks are not cathartic or funny, the thing that sticks is the hate. I am so serious about this...... My main exposure to anti-autism hate is through other autistic people spreading it to me. QRTing utter shite with nothing to add other than '[omg lmfao look what this person thinks about us 😂😂😂]' is not helpful to me, to the community or to you
Apr 1, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Why do the signs of autism get missed in so many children? Do you need a formal diagnosis to access support? What happens when you grow up? 🤔 @RB6K and I are kicking off the #AutisticComicTakeover with our comic that aims to answer these questions. #AutismAcceptanceMonth (1/7) A comic about noticing the ... So how do you recognise autism in early life? (2/7) Page 2: so how do you recog...
Jan 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Go through it now, while it's right in front of you. A short comic made up of three horizontal panels. In the fi Facing difficult situations instead of running away... processing difficult emotions instead of shutting down and turning into a Grey Rock... These are hard things for me. It always feels like a lose-lose situation, where both options will end in misery, but it's not true.
Jan 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I want to fix this (please don't leave me behind) A comic about loneliness, b... I don't know why it's so hard to accept help. People offering help to me has always made me run the other way. I've been trying to figure it out for the longest time and I think that for me, a huge part of it is control.
Dec 2, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
If someone's creeping you out, you're allowed to just leave!! A stranger waves a little r... I've struggled with this throughout my entire life, to varying degrees of seriousness. I always prioritise their feelings over mine, or worry that if I just leave or make a scene I'm going to become a traumatic experience for them, even if they were a creep to me first!
Nov 19, 2021 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
What's the difference between ADHD and autism? How are they similar? What's it like to be both an ADHDer and autistic at the same time? Let's dig in! #cosmictakeover (1/12) Alt text for the entire com... First, a quick technical introduction (2/12) Alt text for the whole comi...
Nov 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My doppelgangers used to keep me up at night, but I just don't have the energy to give a shit anymore lmao A comic showing the cycle o... The thought of someone not liking me or having a bad opinion of me used to tear me apart. I would become anything for anyone to avoid this. As a natural people-pleaser, it's hard even now. But Truly accepting myself means accepting when other people don't like me.
Apr 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
✨ COVER REVEAL! ✨

If I told you we were making a physical book, would you be excited? 👀 #ASDComicTakeover (because I'M Extremely Excited!!!)
Apr 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Kicking off the #ASDComicTakeover with a comic about conversational scripting and masking! Conversation doesn't come naturally to me At All so I've had to learn a bunch of strategies to help me with them. Let's talk about some of them! ✨ (1/3)

#AutismAcceptanceMonth #RedInstead Panel 1: Conversation is one of the most difficult things foConversation doesn't come naturally to me at all. I'm always (2/3) #AutismPrideMonth Flowchart: How well do you know them? If not well, try and fAs well as masking, mirroring is another useful tool in my a
Jan 26, 2021 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
Hey! This is a really good question so I'm gonna answer in a thread, hope that's OK!

THREAD: How to start making comics 🧵

(disclaimer: this advice is not one-size-fits all and I can only speak from my own comic-making experience. pls do not cyberbully me lol) Firstly, start following a TON of comic artists who are making the kind of comics u want to make. One of the main reasons I started finally making comics was bc of @LucieEbrey 's strips. These days I'm inspired by @rdkieran @charlubby @Wrenternet @ADHD_Alien @pseudonymjones
Jan 25, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You're stronger than you think and weaker than you'd like to be I still think of myself as being strong even though I think almost literally everyone is strong. I thought that maybe I could understand strength better if I could come at it from the other side and figure out what it means to be weak. That was the original idea for this comic...
Jan 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Guard your best There's a saying in the comics community, 'you should only make comics using about 60% of your actual skill.' The reason for this is that comics are HARD to make and take a LONG time and if you're giving 100% all the time, you'll burn out fast. I think the same is true for life.
Jan 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm so tired of women in comics having to fight tooth and nail for scraps, only for the men in charge to pull the rug out from under us time and time again. 'You made too much of a fuss, now no-one can have anything!!!' I'm also tired of women and other marginalised folks being the ones to lift each other up, recommend each other for opportunities and try and create spaces where we are heard, only to Still be denied access and passed over for white men. I want so much better for all of us.
Oct 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
How can I make this easier for myself?? Image It's SO tempting for me to put stuff off because I think I'll be able to face it later, but most of the time I'm wrong and I just end up in a horrible cycle until whatever the thing is becomes urgent in some way... When I find myself in this situation I try to tune into myself