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ADHD is the new BLACK is Stacey Machelle, a black woman with ADHD who creates content on YouTube that focuses on empowering, educating, and entertaining black women and WOC with undiagnosed or unmanaged ADHD. Stacey was first diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder at age 26. She didn’t take her diagnosis seriously and she continued to live life-forgetting, FORGETTING that she’d received a diagnosis. However, ADHD didn’t forget about her. ADHD ran her life like an evil marionette for 20 years. Stacey white-knuckled her way through her 20s and 30s-and her next 30s. “Fake it til you make it” was her M.O. She couldn’t keep the friends that she struggled to make and she couldn’t manage money, create a budget or make sound, critical decisions because she was too impulsive. She was always moving on to the next thing before the previous thing was complete. Life was lived hard-always underpaid, saying “yes” to everything, and not following through on anything. She bounced checks like LaBron bounces on the court and it baffled her parents that she was the only one of her siblings who couldn’t figure out how to take care of herself. Everything changed two years ago. She finally remembered her diagnosis. She accepted it, mourned for those “lost” years, and got on with getting herself treated. Because she’s spent equal halves of her life on both sides of treatment-she knows what a difference treatment makes. And she also knows that as far as black women and WOC with ADHD, stigma is one of the biggest barriers to treatment. That’s why she makes videos to encourage other women to face and embrace their diagnosis. Having said that it takes approximately 90 hours to complete just one video. Stacey has been making one every 12 days as of late. That is a full-time job for which Stacey doesn’t receive compensation in any form. Stacey asks that you demonstrate how much Stacey’s work means to you by becoming a patron-a monthly supporter of Stacey’s work. It’s imperative that Stacey be able to continue the growth of ADHD is the new BLACK to reach more sisters who need this type of information.

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