I'm 17 and will be 18 in September.
I've been in and out of homelessness since I was a child. Dropped out when I was a child because I could no longer afford it and, despite the fact that I'm a very intellectual person, I lack tremendously in Mathematics. Despite this, I want to go for my GED or HiSET but I also want to work either before or while I'm studying for it. But my mother refuses, saying I have to get my GED first. This is something that will take me a very long time because I'm so far and I want to start working while I'm doing it so that I can acquire and safe money for my career and my life, but not working will ruin everything that I've been planning. I don't want to leave home because I don't have a father and I'm estranged from my older siblings so it's just my mother and I. But if I have to for what needs to be done then I will strongly contemplate it. She's smothering me but I have no one else to turn to. No friends, no family, no money. I don't want to live in a homeless shelter because I live in a dangerous area and the only shelters left are the ones in the worst places of my city. But I have no money for motels and no one to stay with. I won't live my life if I live with her. But it might be a very big mistake if I leave to. What should I do? Are there places that I can at least sleep in without it being a homeless shelter? And are they just as dangerous? I know what goes on in those places and I really don't want to go there. How can I possibly go about telling her something like this? I'm afraid that, since I'm the only one that she has, she might kill herself because she's tried it before. I don't want to drop contact with her, I just want to breath, that's all. I only want to breath.
I've been in and out of homelessness since I was a child. Dropped out when I was a child because I could no longer afford it and, despite the fact that I'm a very intellectual person, I lack tremendously in Mathematics. Despite this, I want to go for my GED or HiSET but I also want to work either before or while I'm studying for it. But my mother refuses, saying I have to get my GED first. This is something that will take me a very long time because I'm so far and I want to start working while I'm doing it so that I can acquire and safe money for my career and my life, but not working will ruin everything that I've been planning. I don't want to leave home because I don't have a father and I'm estranged from my older siblings so it's just my mother and I. But if I have to for what needs to be done then I will strongly contemplate it. She's smothering me but I have no one else to turn to. No friends, no family, no money. I don't want to live in a homeless shelter because I live in a dangerous area and the only shelters left are the ones in the worst places of my city. But I have no money for motels and no one to stay with. I won't live my life if I live with her. But it might be a very big mistake if I leave to. What should I do? Are there places that I can at least sleep in without it being a homeless shelter? And are they just as dangerous? I know what goes on in those places and I really don't want to go there. How can I possibly go about telling her something like this? I'm afraid that, since I'm the only one that she has, she might kill herself because she's tried it before. I don't want to drop contact with her, I just want to breath, that's all. I only want to breath.
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