Walks Like A Duck: How a Mom with ADHD Led Her Neurodiverse Family to Peace of Mind
When her son's teacher suggests the boy be tested for ADHD, Kim Livingston, uninformed and wary of the label, fights her. She fights the social worker, the doctor. "We can call it whatever you like," the doctor says. "But if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, they're all going to know he's a duck."
This English professor grew up spacey and overweight. Drowning in the unrealistic demands of motherhood, Livingston steals her son's ADHD medication and watches it transform her life-for good and bad.
She grows weary of subjective diagnoses and chemical treatments from traditional psychology experts, and experiments with functional medicine-brain mapping and nutritional supplements-as a way to understand her brain's potential, bio-hacking her way to a healthy body and mind.
Kim Livingston's story is for the overextended, out-of-shape parent embarrassed over their messy house, or worried whether to medicate their children; and for teachers who seek insight into the mind of that quiet back-row student. It includes frustration, denial, some bold decisions-moments many readers will recognize in their own lives.
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"Walks Like a Duck is Kim Livingston's highly entertaining, sometimes harrowing, but always acutely honest account of a family with several different 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, and want to buy it for everybody I love." -ABIGAIL THOMAS, author of Safekeeping; A Three Dog Life; What Comes Next and How to Like It
"Kim Livingston's book, Walks Like a Duck, is one of the most funny and engaging accounts of ADHD I've ever come across. Despite countless challenges from childhood onward, she finds her way, surviving, thriving as she educates herself about all of the complexities and contradictions related to this issue we call ADHD. Her honesty combined with self-acceptance provides a wonderful balanced view of living with this type of brain. Every woman that has ADHD or thinks she might, should read this book." -KATHLEEN NADEAU, PhD, founder and clinical director of the largest private ADHD specialty clinic in the US; author, Still Distracted After All These Years; co-author, bestselling ADD-friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
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