Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Welcome everyone. This is Stuart Jordan for Attitude magazine and you are

listening to Attitudes ADHD experts. In this hour of ADHD experts, we're going to be talking about being normal, feeling normal,

and accepting your ADHD brain.

Our guest today is Stacey Turis who is one of Attitudes most popular bloggers

Her blog absent-minded superhero describes her life with ADHD and giftedness and she is as she is proud of saying an

expert on being weird her topic today is normal is so overrated feeling good about your ADHD brain.

Stacy blogs and writes at her own website Stacy Tourist.com

and she is the author of Here's Not to Catching Our Hair on Fire, an absent-minded tale of life with giftedness and attention deficit.

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Thank you, Stacey for joining us today and we're really happy for you to be here and I also, I forgot to mention,

Stacy also has a wonderful Facebook page, ADHD superhero that you may want to check out as well. So it's time to get

started and take it away Stacy. Okay good I'm so happy to be here. Well first of

all I just kind of have to give a disclaimer

that I'm not here to tell you how to fix your ADHD.

I can't tell you how to stop procrastinating

because I procrastinate. I can't tell you how to keep a proper calendar or a to-do list because I don't do either one

I lose my keys I forget my kids I miss appointments I forget my shoes I did that the other day and wear my dress backwards with a big slit in it I do all of these things but the difference between the old me that that literally hated myself and the current me that pretty much loves

who I am is that I stop putting energy towards trying to change those physiologically unchangeable things and redirected it instead towards more accepting them.

And I have to say that was a major process and that required effort you you know, not only on my part, but on the part of my

family and friends that I surround myself with because it's a group effort. Even if we in our tribe evolve and come to a place where we find that elusive self-acceptance,

if we're still surrounded by people that are shaming us or making us feel bad for the way we're wired, we are still being held down and held back from, you know, shining the way we can shine.

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