298: My Dad Is a Pedophile | Feedback Friday

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Your dad is a pedophile. He's taken naked pictures of kids, including one of your cousins on your mom's side, and posted them online. He's been caught by the police, but he's been let go on some kind of probation.

You don't know how to handle the situation. For some context, You're a high functioning autistic person. You're able to live on your own, take care of yourself, and hold down a full time job, but you have a lot of problems making and maintaining friendships and you have enough sensory issues that you don't like to leave your house any more than you need to.

On the one hand, it would be a great relief to you if you never had to see or hear from your parents again. On the other hand, the number of people in your support network is already quite small, and you wouldn't want to lose contact with your sister, who has very severe mental health problems and is still living at home. What should you do?

This is pretty dark and heavy territory, but we'll do our best to offer some real advice on this and much more in this Feedback Friday.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer
0:07.6	Jason DeFilippo. On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills
0:11.8	the world's most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical
0:15.8	advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. This week we had
0:20.2	Tasha Yurick on self-awareness and how we can generate more of it. What to do if we're
0:24.9	not self-aware and the consequences of being less self-aware in our careers and home life. Of
0:30.5	course how to get other people to be more self-aware. That's a big one from that episode and I think
0:34.9	a lot of us are into that. We also had Eric Thomas the hip hop preacher. He went from homeless
0:40.2	to PhD to become one of the world's top motivational speakers and normally I'm not into motivational
0:45.4	speakers. Y'all know that but this guy he's got great energy. It's a fun conversation to start
0:49.9	off the year. I also write every so often on the blog. The latest post is about how to ask
0:54.6	for advice in the right way. I get a lot of bad advice requests and that's what spurred
0:59.6	the creation of this piece. So if you want to learn how to ask for implement advice or what to do
1:03.9	if you get asked for advice in a way that's not very constructive you can point people to this
1:08.3	piece. That's one of the reasons that I created it. Make sure you've had a look and a listen to
1:12.2	everything we created this week. The articles are at jordanharbinger.com slash articles.
1:17.0	Of course our primary mission here on the Jordan Harbinger show is to pass along our guests and
1:22.3	our own insights and experiences along to you. In other words the real purpose of the show is to
1:26.9	have conversations directly with you. That's what we do today and every Friday here on feedback Friday.
1:32.3	I want to place one brick in the structure that makes up your life. That's really what the whole
1:36.2	show is about. You can reach us Friday at jordanharbinger.com. I'm going to prison for my birthday. A lot of
1:42.2	you know that already February 26, well 25 and 26 in Reno. The experience is an educational program
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