Stacey Turis

As an adult living with ADHD and Giftedness, Stacey Turis is an expert on being weird. After doing daily battle with her quirks for 35 years, she finally decided it was time to hug it out and accept her differences to live a peaceful existence. Stacy earned her degree in broadcast journalism from Wichita State University and started pawsforpeace.com. She writes about her experiences on her website braingangster.com. She is the author of Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire. Stacey lives in Texas with her husband, two kids, a dog, three cats, and eight goldfish.

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