In typical ADHD fashion, I realize I just started posting questions and making comments without coming here first to introduce myself. Better late than never? I am only a couple weeks into my journey, although I’ve always felt a witchy vibe about myself. I grew up in very conservative family and so wasn’t free to explore and was afraid to frankly. Now I am the matriarch of my little family, I just made myself a T-shirt that says “in my crone era” and that’s how I see myself. I am the rebel in my family and hiding in a magical closet! I am reading, reading, and reading some more. I’ve started doing a single tarot card pull and writing my impressions of it every morning and then reflecting again on it at night before bed. Not sure what to do next or what’s safe for me to attempt. I made moon water under the blue moon but didn’t do anything with it so it is still sitting in jars. Here my brain is sandwiched between a natural tendency towards caution and the impulsivity of ADHD. 
I am so excited to find this community. I am detoxing from social media and so finding alternative ways to connect with like-minded people is invaluable. This has been a very welcoming group, even though I clearly struggle with following protocol. I am looking forward to getting to know you.
Welcome to the Forum, again! (The forum flags new members so we know)
Did I ask before if you have/need a local coven? Oh I’ll just post the link, anyways! 
Hey, welcome to the practice!! I am also a very ADHD witch, so I get it lmao. Proud of u for being able to keep up with a daily card practice, every time I try to start one I get maybe a week and a half into it before I forget .-.
If you want some advice on things to start with as a beginner let me know, but in case you don’t and want to figure things out for yourself I won’t volunteer my thoughts :p:p
What kind of books/resources have you been reading? Anything stand out to you in particular, or anything that’s given you pause?
Well yes I’m doing it daily for a couple of weeks and I’m really hoping this isn’t just a hyper focus and I can really commit to this being part of my life. I also got some goddessOracle cards and those are very cool, very optimistic! I just bought the witchcraft 101 mini grimoire off of this site to kind of tell me how to set things up. Have you ever read it? My problem is I’m totally in the closet, my family is pretty conservative. It’s a very unsettling feeling cause I’m usually pretty upfront about everything. I started out with a book called “the dabbler’s guide to witchcraft” and then went straight from that which was rudimentary and disappointing to another book that was like 0 to 60 and way over my head. So Lady Gene on this site gave me some recommendations and I’m waiting for them to arrive but I’ve got a ton of books. I just don’t want to accidentally open myself up to something I can’t handle yet so I need to start slow. Impulsivity is also an issue. Did I mention I’m hoping this isn’t a hyper focus? If you have any tips I’d love to hear them.
The time when you’re just starting out is super exciting, and can be really overwhelming for sure! One of my biggest tips for when you’re just starting out is that reading and researching is important for sure, but action is just as important. Witchcraft is a practice, and the key to learning and getting more comfortable with it is to practice. If you are looking for some magic areas to start researching for acting, I’d suggest looking into warding, cleansing, and grounding practices. Those kinds of workings are a great way to give yourself a good base to work from, and can be easily done while in the broom closet.
Forgive me if this is presumptuous, but from what you’ve said it sounds like you’re coming from the kind of religious practice that demonizes and fear mongers about spirits and practices other than those they approve of. No shame, me too haha. It can be hard to unlearn some of that stuff, even when you start stepping away from the religion it comes from. I understand your fear, but know that, while protection and cleansing are important, there’s probably less to fear than you think there is 
Yes a lot of fear mongering and demonizing, that’s a spot on description. I don’t feel that I am afraid of the practice, I’m just afraid of losing loved ones who may reject me if they find out about this shift in my belief system. Where I live it’s a very conservative area in general but also weirdly a lot of alcohol. 
So where I live, if you don’t go to church, don’t go to bars, or aren’t in recovery because you used to go to bars, it’s very very hard to find adult friends. I have spoken with a lot of people here who feel similarly. The recovery community here is very robust but I don’t qualify. I used to be a church goer but it is so exclusionary and vitriolic now that I just can’t stand it. I’ve always recited my own made up spells around the house which is very weird for someone from my background but I’ve always wanted to practice magic.
Karma! Something that a person cannot change if it has passed but can know!
Tihomir Valchev 
Ahh yeah, I get that. I’m lucky enough to be mostly removed from my more conservative family, but I still don’t really talk openly about my practice because I feel like if I’m not going to get called a devil worshiper from my grandmother I’ll be called crazy by people I actually like. It’s probably an unfounded fear when it comes to my friends, but it’s a hard one to let go of. Finding like-minded ppl, irl or online, helps ^-^