num_pages: 304
description: As propulsive as Brain on Fire and as poetically candid as The Collected Schizophrenias one womans quest for the truth of her neurodivergent mindIt should have been Rebecca Schillers 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.Rebeccas 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 homesteadand her familyhang by increasingly tenuous threads. And when her diagnosis finally comes it is utterly unexpected: severe ADHD.In her scramble for answers Rebeccas 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 womans newfound neurodivergenceand a clarion call to overturn the narrative that says minds are either normal and good or different and broken.
language: English
title: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
publisher: The Experiment