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A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind - A Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781615198801)
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Rebecca Schiller
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xIt should have been Rebecca Schiller's dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. But, as she writes: The summer of striding out toward a life of open fields and sacks of corn, I brought a confused black hole of something pernicious but not yet acknowledged along for the ride.
Rebecca's health begins to crumble, with bewildering symptoms: frequent falls, uncontrollable rages, and mysterious lapses in memory. As she fights to be seen by a succession of specialists, her fledgling homestead--and her family--hang by increasingly tenuous threads. And when her diagnosis finally comes, it is utterly unexpected: severe ADHD.
In her scramble for answers, Rebecca's consciousness alternately sears with pinpoint focus and spirals with connections. Childhood memories resurface with new meaning, and her daily life entwines with the history of intrepid women who tended this land before her. Her family weathers their growing pains where generations of acorns have fallen to rise again as trees, where ancient wolves and lynx once stalked the shadows.
Written in unsparing, luminous prose, this is an all-absorbing memoir of one woman's newfound neurodivergence--and a clarion call to overturn the narrative that says minds are either normal and good or different and broken.
Publisher's Note: A different version of this book has been published under the title Earthed in the United Kingdom.
Author: Rebecca Schiller
ISBN-10: 1615198806
ISBN-13: 9781615198801
Publisher: Experiment
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2022
Rebecca's health begins to crumble, with bewildering symptoms: frequent falls, uncontrollable rages, and mysterious lapses in memory. As she fights to be seen by a succession of specialists, her fledgling homestead--and her family--hang by increasingly tenuous threads. And when her diagnosis finally comes, it is utterly unexpected: severe ADHD.
In her scramble for answers, Rebecca's consciousness alternately sears with pinpoint focus and spirals with connections. Childhood memories resurface with new meaning, and her daily life entwines with the history of intrepid women who tended this land before her. Her family weathers their growing pains where generations of acorns have fallen to rise again as trees, where ancient wolves and lynx once stalked the shadows.
Written in unsparing, luminous prose, this is an all-absorbing memoir of one woman's newfound neurodivergence--and a clarion call to overturn the narrative that says minds are either normal and good or different and broken.
Publisher's Note: A different version of this book has been published under the title Earthed in the United Kingdom.
Author: Rebecca Schiller
ISBN-10: 1615198806
ISBN-13: 9781615198801
Publisher: Experiment
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2022
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