The neurodivergent cocktail
Artwork by Bex Ollerton
- Comic
![Colourful one-panel comic with a pale yellow background. The same character, a girl with long peach-coloured hair and a dark green jumper, appears several times. The girl appears at the top holding a cocktail glass filled with peachy-pink liquid. She has her arm raised to her face and she is smiling. A speech bubble comes from her and reads 'Autism, ADHD and some mental health problems on top....' Another speech bubble comes from her and reads '...Or as I like to call it...' A white text banner in the middle completes her sentence and reads ‘The Neurodiverent Cocktail’. The same girl appears in the bottom left hand corner. She has her eyes wide open, frantically, her arms pointing light-heartedly, her eyebrows raised and dark bags under her eyes. Text above her reads 'On the rocks? More like on the edge'. The same girl appears in two different picture boxes on the bottom right. The girl is bigger in the left box, with text above her reading 'Am I right' and smallest in the rightmost box, with text above her reading 'Ha ha'. She is standing and facing straight forwards.](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/09110ab6-e920-4a8f-85d2-4ad5df02dc1c_Neurodivergent+Cocktail+green.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
The Neurodivergent Cocktail. © Bex Ollerton for Wellcome Collection.
About the artist
Bex Ollerton
Bex Ollerton is a full-time comic artist from Lancashire. She is known for her introspective comics about mental health, neurodivergence and the general struggles of being a human being in an overwhelming world. As a physically disabled autistic artist with ADHD, she cares greatly about raising awareness through graphic medicine, and her goal is to use comics to discuss things that can be hard to talk about. When she’s not drawing or making comics, she enjoys playing piano and definitely remembering to take care of her far too many house plants. You can find her work online under the handle Schnumn.