Description: Kim R. Livingston, author of Walks Like a Duck: A Family Brain Memoir, coming spring 2023 from TouchPoint Press.
Publications
“A highly entertaining, sometimes harrowing, but always acutely honest account of a family with several neurological diagnoses, ADHD and schizophrenia among them. Livingston's writing bristles with life, and her insights are invaluable. Like many of us, she has had her share of pain, and confusion, but humor is never far off, (she is very funny), and there is a quality to her writing that I can only describe as a generosity of spirit, gracing every page. I found aspects of my own life in here, no surprise,
Drowning in the unrealistic demands of motherhood, this English Professor steals her son’s ADHD medication and watches it transform her life—for good and bad. She experiments with functional medicine to learn her brain’s potential and biohacks her way to a healthy body and mind. Livingston’s story is for parents who are overwhelmed, embarrassed by their messy house, or worried about labeling and medicating their children; for teachers seeking insight into the mind of that quiet back-row student; and for fam