Sabrina Walker

my therapist told me this and it hit me: “healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety.... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice.... and your current self-who is tired and just wants peace."

@newstart_2024 I think it’s an upgrade caused by a trauma response. I can function fast, read a room, imagine physics and mechanics without formal education. ADHD and the like tend to be the smartest in the room but can simplify things enough for the average person to understand

Gabor Maté flipped the entire ADHD conversation on Joe Rogan: He says ADHD is real, but it’s not a genetic disease like we’ve been told. It’s a coping mechanism. When a young child experiences stress (especially from parents) and can’t fight or escape, their developing brain learns to tune out. That pattern gets wired in. Years later we call it a “disorder” and reach for pills. Maté’s take: The brain develops in relationship. Stressed, unavailable parents → stressed, distracted kids. Fix the environment and family dynamics, and the symptoms often improve dramatically. We’ve spent decades treating ADHD as purely biological when the environment and early relationships might be playing a much bigger role than most doctors admit. This one really made me think. I’ve seen kids (and adults) labeled with ADHD whose home life was chaotic. The idea that it could be a survival adaptation rather than just “broken wiring” feels like it explains a lot. Do you see ADHD more as a genetic brain disease, a coping mechanism from early stress, or somewhere in between?

@michelle_byoung So making it unfair to prevent an awkward social situation? Maybe the social issues need reevaluating.

My autism spectrum kid is a real stickler about fairness & it can make for some AWKWARD social situations like when nobody actually wants to hear the REAL TRUTH or navigating being a tattletale, etc. I try to explain these nuances often in vain. Any tips? I don’t want to shame…

@EmilySm43 Former me no. Now with open eyes I probably wouldn’t have them in public school in the first place.

Be brutally honest 🤔

@LarryJones The line that says pay is messed up not the tip.

Can we stop saying " if you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to dine out!" We need to be saying, "If a restaurant can’t pay its employees a livable wage without depending on the generosity of customers then they can’t afford to own a business!”

@HorrorGorl Dreams of better tomorrow.

Why do people continue to have babies on the brinks of collapse?

@Brutal_Realist_ @Dearme2_ You have to wish and dream to create your freedom. Wish’s and dreams are also known as goals.

@Dearme2_ That feeling is real. But wanting “out” isn’t a plan. You don’t escape the system by rejecting it. You do it by building something that gives you options. Freedom is created, not wished for.

I don’t want another job, I want OUT of this whole system.

@mrmikeMTL A single person can’t get a moments peace in this world why add kids? Remove government and kids will be everywhere.

Why does this generation seem to be so against having kids?

Religion and Spirituality: Know the Difference. Two fish lived in the same ocean. One was kept safely inside a glass bowl. The bowl had rules, limits, and clear boundaries. It offered safety, structure, and certainty. The fish inside felt protected—but it never truly knew the vastness of the waters beyond its walls. The other fish swam freely in the open ocean. It encountered currents, storms, depths, and the unknown. It faced uncertainty, yet through direct experience it came to know the living reality of the water in a way the fish in the bowl never could. One fish was taught about the ocean. The other fish experienced the ocean. The bowl called itself safety. The ocean revealed itself as truth. This is the difference between religion and spirituality. Religion provides form. It offers teachings, rituals, systems, and doctrines that can guide the seeker toward truth. It creates order, structure, and a framework through which higher principles may be introduced. In this way, religion can be valuable, for it points toward the sacred. But spirituality is the living experience of truth itself. Spirituality begins where borrowed belief ends. It is the inward journey of direct knowing—where truth is not accepted merely because it was taught, but because it has been realized within consciousness. Religion teaches you about the water. Spirituality invites you to enter the water. From a Hermetic perspective, this distinction is essential. The path of Hermetics is not rooted in blind belief but in conscious experience. It does not ask the seeker merely to accept truth intellectually—it calls the seeker to embody truth through inner transformation. The Principle of Mentalism teaches that all reality begins in mind. No external doctrine can substitute for inner awakening. Until truth is realized within, it remains secondhand knowledge. The Principle of Correspondence reminds us that what is sought externally must first be found internally: As within, so without. The divine ocean we seek is not somewhere outside ourselves—it exists within our own consciousness. The Principle of Vibration teaches that true spiritual growth is not about memorizing sacred words, but about raising one's inner state to resonate with higher truth. Rules may point toward wisdom—but awareness allows wisdom to be lived. Belief may open the door—but direct experience is what transforms the soul. This does not mean religion has no value. The bowl serves a purpose. It can nurture, protect, and prepare the seeker. But the danger comes when the container is mistaken for the totality of truth. The bowl is not the ocean. The teaching is not the experience. The symbol is not the reality. Many become so attached to the structure that they never step into the living waters of inner knowing. The Hermetic path calls us beyond that limitation. It invites us to move from inherited belief into direct realization, from passive acceptance into conscious awakening, from external dependence into inner gnosis. Respect the bowl—but do not mistake it for the ocean. Honor the teachings—but seek the living truth behind them. For the ocean you seek has never been outside of you. The Divine, the Truth, the Infinite Depth—it has always existed within. The true spiritual journey begins the moment you stop merely studying the water... and finally choose to swim. ✨🙌🏾💫

@Pixie1z Homemade baked beans. About $2 for a huge pot and it’s from the heart.

What do you say?

@OffGridNoah @Be_like_yankee Weed more honest, creative and understanding

Arguments while high on weed and Arguments when sober, which do you prefer?

@omgsidewalks Remove the “reality” of today. If you could live your dream what would it be? Money be damned what do you truely desire?

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU’RE NOT SUICIÐAL BUT JUST REALLY TIRED OF BEING ALIVE ???

@Autistic_Lauren Asked to many questions and learned to just shut up a long time ago. People take a true question personally.

Asking autistics, were you the "gifted child" when growing up?

@EmilySm43 Ability to think 🤔

Be brutally honest 🤔

Do you watch TV for simple entertainment or do you relate with the characters? Try to find yourself in the cast?

@heavensbvnny I’ve started talking with spiritual people. Astrology, tarot. Was trained it was nonsense but it’s eye opening. Tarot helps understand others perspectives.

Does anyone else with ADHD feel like they're always just slightly on the outside of every friend group no matter how hard they try? Not looking for pity. Just wondering if anyone else has always felt like they're there but not really there.

@eternaltxts Work, tv, alcohol, politics, internet, money

what's the most normalized addiction??

@be_like_ice @Be_like_yankee It’s real. Talk to him when he is good. Find out what’s happening. The more he trusts youthe more he will open up. It’s not you who’s caused this, life has and he found a way to deal with the noise alone. Don’t yell, push, or demand answers. Just be there he will open up.

Help. I’m in a relationship with someone who has ADHD and I’m honestly so confused. He disappears when things get overwhelming, like just stops replying for days. Then comes back saying he “shut down.” Is this actually an ADHD thing or am I being ignored?

Exactly

@Nithya_Shrii Stomach pain so intense I pass out.

Have you ever been in so much pain emotionally it hurts physically?