Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2818

Tonight's special guest is Jude M, a transgender man who grew up in the Southern United States in a Mormon, military family. Jake’s mom has histrionic personality disorder, and suffered from severe post-partum from Jake’s sister’s birth when he was eight. She spent most of his childhood either in bed ignoring the world, or professing her histrionic tendencies by leveraging her children's problems for attention with her church colleagues. Jake raised his much younger sister, and was responsible for her on all accounts. Jake’s father has narcissistic personality disorder and was in the military until Jake’s senior year in high school. Because of this, he was rarely home, and when he was, he was physically violent with Jake’s older brothers and their pets and was verbally dominating as a narcissist to everyone. Jake’s father also molested him when he was around 11 years old. When Jake told him mom about the molestation, she laughed audibly and told him to never mention it again. Over the years, Jake also found child ography and a number of chat conversations with sex workers on his dad’s laptop. Jake’s older brothers were physically violent with him as well as with his parents and their own intimate partners over the years. One brother is a diagnosed sociopath and the other has no official psychiatric diagnoses. From age eight, Jake spent most of his childhood running every aspect of the household. As an adult, Jake has faced disownment, homelessness, spousal rape, being held hostage by his ex-spouse, being stalked by that spouse, divorce, and poverty. He also has Autism, PTSD, OCD, BPD, ADHD, and is multi-disabled and chronically ill. He now runs his own business automating small business tech for other entrepreneurs and is an LGBTQ activist in his community.