A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind / Rebecca Schiller.
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TextPublisher: New York : The Experiment, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Description: 293 pages : map, illustrations, 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781615198801
- 1615198806
- 1000 ways to pay attention
- Earthed
- Schiller, Rebecca
- Schiller, Rebecca -- Mental health
- Attention-deficit-disordered adults -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Attention-deficit-disordered adults -- Family relationships -- Great Britain
- Attention-deficit disorder in adults -- Great Britain
- Women farmers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Farm life -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes
- Kent (England) -- Biography
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | SCHILLER R. S334 | Available | 33111011016090 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It 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.
"Originally published in the UK as Earthed by Elliot & Thompson, Ltd., an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK, in 2021. First published in North America in revised form by The Experiment, LLC, in 2022."
February 2020 -- January : I fall -- February : beginnings -- March : frag ment ation -- April : black holes -- May : mapmaking -- June : I dissolve -- July : a Puritan lady -- August : eye opening -- September : the deadening cloak -- October : riot/protest -- November : ideas do not fall from the sky -- December : the mind scramble -- February 2020 : the test.
"A memoir of one woman's search to understand the land she farms-and her own experience with ADHD"-- Provided by publisher.
Moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land should have been Schiller's dream. Then her health began to crumble. The diagnosis: sever ADHD. Schiller's memoir is a clarion call to overturn the narrative that says minds are either normal, or different and broken. -- adapted from jacket