Jun 6 • General discussion
Are you lost in the hall of mirrors?🪞
Most of us have spent our entire lives looking at ourselves through other people's eyes.
❌A parent who needed you to be easier.
❌A teacher who needed you to sit still.
❌A partner who needed you to be more organised.
❌A boss who needed you to explain yourself better.
A world that needed you to be less — less intense, less emotional, less scattered, less you.
We looked at those reflections of ourselves and believed them. 👀
Not because we were stupid. Because we were human. Because when the people around you consistently reflect back a version of you that is too much and not enough at the same time — eventually you start to believe that reflection is the truth.
Here is what I know now, four years after my ADHD diagnosis at 59:
👉Those were wonky mirrors.
👉Every single one of them was a reflection filtered through someone else's wounds, someone else's expectations, someone else's discomfort with difference.
👉They were never an accurate picture of you.
Let's put the mirrors down together and find out who you actually are when you stop seeing through someone else's eyes.
That is the most radical, the most difficult, and the most worthwhile thing I know how to do.
Welcome to the beginning of it. ❤️
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Are you lost in the hall of mirrors?🪞
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