Here’s a comic I worked for a long time while I went to therapy. I really don’t know what else to say about it – as a topic, it’s not so close to me anymore. But still important!
(Sorry about texts being so small. This was… a long time ago, so I was still very much practicing. Try to zoom closer on the webside!)

[Image description: it is a digitally drawn comic on a horizontal page. It has 11 panels on two rows.
1. panel: Three kids are running from left to right. First one is pointing something ahead them and smiling to other. They all look very excited. Background has grey mass of running children and a blue sky. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”Kids have a job. It is to grow up.”
2. panel: This panel is under the brevious. It has a silver blond haired young girl running towards the reader, smiling. She’s wearing an orange t-shirt, red shorts and red shoes. Background has a blue sky and a grey ground. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”And every kid wants to do it. Eagerly. Isn’t that something you thought about as a kid?”
3. panel: The silver haired young girl is walking her head down. Background is mostly grey, with some small areas of blue. There’s an orange text box beneath the panel. It says: ”Sometimes, there’s plenty of bad luck: there’s stuff that a kiddo can’t really do anything about. Something that’s not under a child’s control. Sometimes that stuff makes growing up hard.”
4. panel: The girl suddenly stops, confused. There are bars in front of her. Background is grey. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”And not just hard. Maybe it makes growing up almost impossible.”
5. panel: The girl is pushing her hand through the bars, trying to reach something. She’s crying. Background is darker from the left. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”Which means a kid is forced to get left behind.”
6. panel: This panel has no borders, and it’s backgound color fades away in between other near by panels. The girl is lying in fetal position on the ground, her hand still goes through bars. Her legs are transparent blue, and the colors in her are rising in the air towards the teen girl, who is standing up next to her. She has white top and light blue jeans, her hair color is like toffee. Her impression is bland. Background is dark turquoise.
7. panel: A blue, transparent girl is lying in fetal position on the ground, covering her face with her hands. Background is dark blue and get darker at the borders of the panel. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”When you need to grow up in one big leap, Something gets usually left behind. You are not whole.”
8. panel: The blue girl is lying behind bars. Someone is walking towards her on the other side of the bars, they have blue jeans, woolly socks with blue, orange and white and brown shoes. Background is grey ground and behind bars dark blue.
9. panel: Blue girl is now almost sitting, crying and looking up to someone, who is in this panel visible from waist down only. They have brown, long cardigan and an orange shirt. Background is grey, darker on the top part of the panel.
10. panel: The one who came to the girl is lifting the bars and offers her hand to the girl. This is seen from the girl’s perspective. The adult is now seen completely. They have light brown dreadlocks. Background is grey, darker at the bottom of the panel. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”In order to be whole, you need to come back for what you were forced to leave behind.”
11. panel: Last panel has the adult carrying the transparent child. Adult seems sad and child seems tired. Background is grey, darker on the top part of the panel. There’s an orange text box above the panel. It says: ”It usually means a lot of work. And a huge amount of work is never painless.”]