Dominic Gordon grew up in the suburbs of Melbourne, where he learnt to smoke at 10 years old and spent his time shoplifting, vandalising trains, getting into fights and taking drugs that he paid for with stolen money.
For Dominic, everyday was an opportunity for risk taking, and his behaviour took him so far off the rails, he didn’t know how to get back on again.
For more than 20 years, Dominic cycled through the same activities until he took the biggest risk of all to get his life back.
Content warning: this episode of Conversations contains references to drug taking and childhood sexual abuse.
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Further information
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk is published by Upswell Publishing
You can listen to Dominic's radio play Cooked in the Big Smoke here.
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Dominic Gordon used risk-taking to fight for his existence, until he realised it wasn't much of an existence at all.