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A review by michaela_cooney
A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: A Memoir of Coming Home to My Neurodivergent Mind by Rebecca Schiller
3.0
I came into reading this book interested in understanding a bit more about how I see the world. I didn’t have a lot of hope that I could find some of my own struggles with getting through day to day life reflected by someone with ADHD. But even through just reading the first few pages of this book, I realized that I do very much have something in common with women with ADHD. And in the dozens of different quotes that I highlighted in my Kindle version, it felt as though it was something I might have written myself if I had could only get away from my head a bit more and gain a bird’s eye view. For the understanding of myself that she gave, I loved this book
I’m interested in small scale sustainable farming so her discussion on that aspect was interesting to me. But I think if I was coming in with a different perspective, I’d find that she’s simple going off on tangents often beyond relating the reader to her lifestyle and what led her to her understanding of her mental health struggles. But again as somebody who relates to her view of the world, I can see why her thought processes bring her to tangents like these. Doesn’t mean I didn’t have to skip a page or two.
I’m interested in small scale sustainable farming so her discussion on that aspect was interesting to me. But I think if I was coming in with a different perspective, I’d find that she’s simple going off on tangents often beyond relating the reader to her lifestyle and what led her to her understanding of her mental health struggles. But again as somebody who relates to her view of the world, I can see why her thought processes bring her to tangents like these. Doesn’t mean I didn’t have to skip a page or two.