SHINY OBJECTS

My Life with ADHD

Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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August 04
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Blogger and Strategy Consultant
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SHINY OBJECTS shares with you the drama of my life as an ADHDer and recovering codependent. These posts are drawn from my other bylines: CHICAGO CARLESS, where I blog about my life as an expat New Yorker living in the Windy City; and CHICAGOSPHERE, where I cover online media on the Chicago Tribune's ChicagoNow blog network. And, no, I have absolutely no idea how to drive a car. Given my attention span, that's probably a good...hey...are those P.F. Flyers?

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OCTOBER 29, 2009 6:07PM

One Foot in Front of the Other

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The following appeared on Chicago Carless on 5/8/09.


(Video: ...Soon I'll be walking across the floor.)

One step, two step, 12-step. I can grouse and complain, but denial will get me nowhere, especially when the river I'm walking across is in Chicago. Over the Wabash Bridge I go to my coffee-office this morning, mulling what room I'll be sitting in later this afternoon, and why. Thank God it's codependence and not alcoholism. (Warning: Although that would explain the shaky camera). Someone pass me a Smithwicks...

 

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