Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Update: This comic made some readers feel very sad, so pleas be advised that there is a follow-up comic.
Calvin and Hobbes — Now with Ritalin!
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Heh – that’s actually kind of depressing…
Just “kind of” depressing?!?
I made a friend cry by showing her that comic.
Yeah, this is the saddest thing I’ve seen all year. Thanks a lot, Joey.
Yeah Donald you’re right… that’s actually really depressing.
I’m sorry but depressing is what’s happening to kids being under drugs like SSRIs and Ritalin.
Wow….Thats really is depressing….
I actually feel a tear coming on
Dude, there’s nothing funny about that, it’s depressing
Magical!
I laughed really, really hard.
Holy shit. That is the single most moving thing I have ever seen on the internet.
Thank you for making that beautiful, terrible comic.
If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go read the originals again just to get over this…
…..there goes my childhood.
That is exactly what those damned drugs do to you. I know for a fact, as I used to take them. My parents and teachers extolled their virtues and said they were “helping” me when all the did was make me into a depressed zombie. I used to be on 45mg of Dexedrine and 100mg of Strattera; the latter of which was a horrible stuff that gave me mood swings and other side effects. Now I’ve ditched Strattera and take only half a 15mg capsule of Dex as needed. I haven’t taken any in a week. I’m doing fine. I’m getting things done. Want to know what helped the most? A FRAKKING DAY PLANNER and some willpower.
I may be an exception rather than the norm, but I have my doubts. I think doctors should be ashamed for bowing to the pharmaceutical companies and immediately prescribing drugs before trying anything else.
Though its a very depressing comic you have to take what you can from it. Think of what the comic is implying not just what it is. I think this comic should be mass emailed to every parent in America in hope that they will understand the message. We as americans seem to believe that a pill can fix everything, even the amazing unprecedented gift of a childs imagination. Imagination is what lead to scientist delving deeper into the worlds mysteries, what lead humans to find a way to fly to the moon and past. where would we be if none of these things and many many others never happened? we would still be in the stone age and reluctant pick up a stone as a tool because that would take imagination to think of. STOP DRUGGING OUR FUTURE INVENTORS AND ARTISTS!
The first ad in the upper right hand side of this page is “Save on ADHD Medicine
Receive up to $50 off an approved ADHD treatment for your child.” And I thought google’s corporate motto was “do no harm”. *sigh*
“I take a PILL-tiddley pom;
It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom;
It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom;
Not fiddling.”
I am a big Calvin and Hobbes fan I’ve been reading them before I could read. My brother would read them to me, we would sit for hours, laughing and quoting our favorites. And I must say as a fan and collector, this comic was an insult to the Calivin and Hobbes name. Watterson would be disapointed. It goes against everything Calvin stood for. There can be no Calvin without Hobbes, it’s just not right. Go put Mickey Mouse on Ritalin, leave this one alone. It means too much to too many people. I guess that said, parents do need to stop drugging up their kids, it’s getting crazy.
It’s amazing that after years of reading this comic, this one, however faux it is, has deeply depressed me. I’ve actually got a tear coming on…