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Hello. My name is Wire, and I want to leave home this summer.
Over the past year, I have had to deal with the death of my boyfriend, my parents getting divorced, and with depression. I have ADHD, and that, combined with other issues in my life, has adversely affected my grades, putting me in a A, C and mostly B range. Recently, however, it has gotten a lot harder to function as part of my family.
For me, social interactions have always been difficult. I am unable to recognize facial expressions, so communication is difficult. Now, however, it has been becoming harder for me to deal with normal social interactions. I see how this hurts my family, and knowing that I will never be able to understand them hurts me too. Our relationships are good, but strained.
I am 16, 17 in January. I have 400 or so dollars which I will be putting in my own account this summer, and I want to get a job to earn more until school lets out in the summer. I don't want to go forever, just for one summer, and come home in the fall. It frightens me to stay, because if I do, I think it would be that much harder to be accepted after colledge. After colledge it is a nonissue, as I am going to leave the country to walk across asia.
I want to know, how much money will I need? and is there a place I could leave things like cloths where the police wouldn't find them? Could I spend the winter hiding supplies for the summer, things like bottled water, cloths and personal hygene items like soap? Also, I have very violent cramps, and take claratin and two inhalers for allergies. If I buy large sizes of these, like a 400 pill bottle of motrin, or if I have a first aid kit with things like Asprin, a prescription inhaler, cough medicine, a coagulant for cuts, vitamins or other over the counter drugs, could I be arrested for Possesion?
How can I strech a few hundred dollars? is it OK to go to the Asian market and buy things like dried beans at 69c a pound and then eat things like that, or will beans make me sick if I eat them every day? How can you cook when you are on the move? Should I get a little gas stove for like 20$ and then pay the 3$ for gas once a week, or risk being seen with a campfire? I plan to move around within CT's State Parks, as they are less regulated and I am unlikely to be recognized like I would be in a city. Would I be safer from murder and rape in the woods because there are less people? Or should I try to make it in Hartford's Underground? I don't plan to break any laws, but I don't get why people seem so offended by runaways who make a honest living on their backs. Is this somthing that's up to me to decide my feelings on, or could selling sex cause me to lose job prospects in the future? Would my parents ever need to know? And can you explain how prostitution hurts me as long as I use protection and am discrete? I don't really get what's so bad about it, but one of my friends made a big fuss and told me to ask you. So, there it is.
Thanks, Wire.
Over the past year, I have had to deal with the death of my boyfriend, my parents getting divorced, and with depression. I have ADHD, and that, combined with other issues in my life, has adversely affected my grades, putting me in a A, C and mostly B range. Recently, however, it has gotten a lot harder to function as part of my family.
For me, social interactions have always been difficult. I am unable to recognize facial expressions, so communication is difficult. Now, however, it has been becoming harder for me to deal with normal social interactions. I see how this hurts my family, and knowing that I will never be able to understand them hurts me too. Our relationships are good, but strained.
I am 16, 17 in January. I have 400 or so dollars which I will be putting in my own account this summer, and I want to get a job to earn more until school lets out in the summer. I don't want to go forever, just for one summer, and come home in the fall. It frightens me to stay, because if I do, I think it would be that much harder to be accepted after colledge. After colledge it is a nonissue, as I am going to leave the country to walk across asia.
I want to know, how much money will I need? and is there a place I could leave things like cloths where the police wouldn't find them? Could I spend the winter hiding supplies for the summer, things like bottled water, cloths and personal hygene items like soap? Also, I have very violent cramps, and take claratin and two inhalers for allergies. If I buy large sizes of these, like a 400 pill bottle of motrin, or if I have a first aid kit with things like Asprin, a prescription inhaler, cough medicine, a coagulant for cuts, vitamins or other over the counter drugs, could I be arrested for Possesion?
How can I strech a few hundred dollars? is it OK to go to the Asian market and buy things like dried beans at 69c a pound and then eat things like that, or will beans make me sick if I eat them every day? How can you cook when you are on the move? Should I get a little gas stove for like 20$ and then pay the 3$ for gas once a week, or risk being seen with a campfire? I plan to move around within CT's State Parks, as they are less regulated and I am unlikely to be recognized like I would be in a city. Would I be safer from murder and rape in the woods because there are less people? Or should I try to make it in Hartford's Underground? I don't plan to break any laws, but I don't get why people seem so offended by runaways who make a honest living on their backs. Is this somthing that's up to me to decide my feelings on, or could selling sex cause me to lose job prospects in the future? Would my parents ever need to know? And can you explain how prostitution hurts me as long as I use protection and am discrete? I don't really get what's so bad about it, but one of my friends made a big fuss and told me to ask you. So, there it is.
Thanks, Wire.
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