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Leaving Home before 18: A Practical Guide for Cast-Offs, Runaways, and Everybody in Between
Teens are often labeled as highly emotional, irrational, volatile, impulsive, short-sighted monsters. This is pretty fucking unfair. Everyone is different. Many people are wise and mature beyond their years—or foolish and immature despite them.
However: science suggests that teenage brains are still changing and developing. In fact, we now know that the brain doesn’t fully mature until age twenty-five.
Ask people in their thirties and forties about their teenage years, and almost everyone goes pale at the memory of how wild it felt. For me, everything felt incredibly intense. Every day brimmed with opportunity for catastrophic highs and lows. Aging sorts a lot of things out—like a warped funhouse mirror slowly straightening out into something trustworthy.
You’re not crazy. And you’re not wrong. But you are neurologically different than your parents—and different than you will be when you’re their age.
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#abuse#apartments#autonomy#emancipation#financial independence#leaving home#minors#parents#running away from home#shelters
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"the Gabe and Sally dynamic in the show is abusive" and "the way they've portrayed Gabe in the show is distinctly different from his book counterpart and fans can criticize that" are two discussions that can coexist
#I understand that this is hard topic to navigate#but me saying that /they've changed Gabe and that's consequently altered the dynamic he has with Sally in way I don't like/#is NOT me saying I don't think what they've portrayed onscreen is non-abusive#or that I WANT to see him abuse her???#its just the guy in the show while clearly controlling and abusive (emotionally and financially so far)#...I don't believe he's the guy who's presence was so horrid and disgusting MONSTERS avoided him#I wouldn't call him /Smelly/#in the book his abuse (all forms) is much more overt#(and just to be painstakingly clear: abuse doesn't have to be overt to be abuse)#but the guy in the show does not have the same presence as the guy in the book#book Gabe is menacing#he growls and he threatens and both Sally and Percy have developed very specific responses to deal with it#I've seen one take saying that people can't recognize the abuse in the show because its not physical (yet?)#but even disregarding the physical abuse entirely#if you compare the book scene and TV show scene of Percy arriving home and he and Sally readying for Montauk#there is a pretty stark difference in tone#and in how both Sally and Percy interact with Gabe#in the book Sally goes out of her way to avoid /provoking/ Gabe and asks Percy to do the same until they can leave for Montauk#and Gabe is just itching for any excuse to keep them home#and imo if Book Sally had said the things that show Sally did to Gabe#Gabe wouldn't have let them gone!#and again im not saying that the show's depiction is nonabusive#or unrealistic#im saying its simply /different/ than the book#and im upset that it doesn't feel like dynamic depicted the book#and no book sally is no simpering wilting flower#but she's also not what they depicted in the show either#pjo adaptation#sally jackson#pjo
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Leaving my abusive household.
Hello, I try to not get too serious or talk about my private life too often, but today I've finally started up a gofundme to. Well. Get out of the abusive situation I live in. It's something I've thought long and hard about, and while I hate having to resort to this, all other options have failed me, and I'm desperate to leave so I can start actually living. Please, any and all help sharing this around will mean the world to me, as this situation has gotten dire, and I honestly cannot live in this house with my mother for another year.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post, I appreciate it, and I hope you have a wonderful day.
#Beetle Chitter#gofundme#financial aid#donate if you can#crowdfunding#go fund me#gofundme link#fundraising#fundraiser#Aid Request#financial aid request#leaving home#abusive parent#please.
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it actually irritates me so much when people bring up the TENMA parents when someone's discussing Mrs Asahina, Harumichi or even Shinei. if you think poor Mr and Mrs Tenma are remotely comparable to those three disgraces, i am going to assume you don't read
#i get it. some people adore Tsukasa angst#but his parents are literally fine#they might've made a mistake in leaving him alone when visiting Saki but they were STRESSED. UNDERSTANDABLY SO#they haven't traumatised him by leaving him alone#they were NOT favouring Saki. it's no one's fault that Saki needed more attention at the time#yes worrying about his little sister would have affected Tsukasa. but he wasn't rotting in loneliness or something#he was shown to entertain himself at home just fine#parents who aren't perfect aren't automatically Mrs Asahina/Mr Aoyagi level abusive. OR Mr Shinonome level neglectful#ace's random thoughts :)#scared to tag#eh i have nothing to lose#project sekai#pjsk
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Why do people keep saying they want Agatha to adopt Billy or that Billy is a motherless child or that Agatha is Billy's new mom.... Y'all he says Rebecca is his mom, canonically in the show. Agatha isn't his mom.
#agatha all along#agatha harkness#william kaplan#rebecca kaplan#billy maximoff#Agatha isnt his mome hes has enough moms hes got Rebecca and maybe Wanda in the future. for THREE YEARS Rebecca was his mom#put some respect on her name#i cant believe i have to keep saying this#agatha isnt his mom. billy isnt a replacement nicky. agatha cares for billy yes but why does that have to be she his mom now?#i love my nieces ans nephews are they my children? no. im their aunt. id still help them need be. agatha has no parental power over billy#i see her as more aunt figure or mentor. why does she have to be his mom? he has enough moms? i thought we settled on Fun Aunt Agatha?#a coven is a non traditional family unit why do we have to put them in traditional family boxes?#hell the whole kaplan-maximoff-shepherd dynamic isnt traditional its messy and complicated. why would you want to water it down?#...........#i saw someone on tiktok say they want Agatha to Adopt Billy....how. would that work? he has two. perfectly alive and loving parents at home?#he loves them? he talks about them? he calls them his mom and dad? he spent 3 years with them? they're not abusive or horrible people!#why would he leave them? again HE LOVES THEM! Did you miss the part where he hugges them and looks at them fondly and they love him?#you want the twin with shit parents that would leave them and never look back? THATS TOMMY!
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"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.
(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)
#my dc posting#dc#jason todd#jaybin#im having so many thoughts abt jaybin and he is so important to me#in one fic he went on a hunger strike bc alfred didnt eat w them and did it for so long they had to compromise#i love a jaybin 100% willing to menace and bother batman until the man folds. as is his right#the thing abt jason's backstory is that it shows him unwilling to suffer for a home#ma gunn's is bad; he gets beat up and she tries to get him to help rob a place. so he leaves! and rats the whole thing out to batman#and shows up himself cus he didnt think he had been believed#and lets not forget the fact he hit batman with a tire iron and called him a 'big boob'!#the boy's got moxie!! let jaybin be crass and angry and sassy and flawed and traumatized without reducing him to 2d caricature of a 'troubl#d kid'#i dont like a jason who did nothing but use excessive violence and disobey orders and be cocky and all that shit#i like a jason who was. oh yknow. a complex person!! a child/teen who has been fucking abused!!!#you shouldnt erase the fact that jason's reaction/response to stressful situations and triggers IS anger#it's not an indication that he was always gonna become a criminal/red hood or whatever. get outta here w that shit#but like. let us not go so far in the other direction we forget to have him react and be affected by the abuse he's suffered#anyway. if anyone should be a drama-queen it should be jaybin. once he becomes truly comfortable w bruce he should dial it up to 11#a lot of red hood's appeal (to me&many others) is that he is an 'imperfect' victim. meaning he is angry and flawed and doesnt suffer quietl#but is loud and obvious abt it#so when i see jaybin written as the opposite its like. man whats that about#anyway. jaybin is good and cares and wants to help and protect people. and by god if i ever see anybody writing#him having arguments with bruce about the no kill rule WHILE robin again im gonna throw hands istg-#my tags are like a hidden treasure box. most of what i say is in here lmao
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you know the more i think about the events of season eight from sam's perspective the more i think. yeah id want to kill myself too
#like coming from being dropped into grief -> losing the foundation you were building very slowly and painfully#-> dropped right into hatred and disbelief -> some semblance of hypocrisy that he also didn't have any right feeling but Felt anyway#because of how close to home it hit (amy‚ his own blood sucking) -> pissing off your Father Figure quote unquote in the afterlife#-> the whole thing about leaving benny in purgatory after dean's valued benny's life openly in front of you#and trying to compartmentalise benny's wishes and body language#-> and the constant undercurrent emotional abuse (dean going from this opague hatred of sam's decisions right into some kind of#weird distrust of sam as a fragile thing that has sam questioning the grounds of their relationship as he jumps between faithfulness#and faithlessness‚ a lot of the former being expressed outwards towards third party relationships)#how the fuck do you deal with ANY of that??#like dean sets the standards of their relationship yes#but what do you do when these standards are all unclear and unknown and changing constantly because of dean's current emotional volatility??#sam winchester#&
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you GUYS i am officially enrolled in my degree i am so unbelievably happy!!!!! i have been fighting for my life to get here. i had to turn down all my uni offers when i was a teen (had to move out independantly bc of domestic violence and disability/health complications). i've always known exactly what i want to do with my life but everything got put on hold whilst i desperately tried to sort my shit out. BUT IM DOING IT NOW!!!!!
#u guys dont even know 😭#i dropped out of school when i was 14/15#taught myself all my GCSEs at home#tried to go back to school 3 times but had to leave bc of my abuser finding me + disabilities/pain made my attendance scores impossible#taught myself my A levels and GOT INTO MY DREAM UNI#had to TURN DOWN the offer so i could move out alone somewhere safe on my own income where he could not find me#then had to take a few years to sort my shit out because hello what the FUCK was that first 20 years of my life#plus hey ive been AUTISTIC and adhd this whole time ontop of the cptsd and psychosis and whatever the FUCK else#but im here now :))#lets get a fUCKING DEGREE!!!!!!!!!!
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Feel free to ignore this, but I have to ask since I've been rewatching yugioh 5ds and you're one of the very few blogs I've searched that mentioned Satellite Bros age order. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and if you know other blogs that talk about it.
WHY WOULD I EVER IGNORE THIS ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS. THANK YOU SO MUCH <3
*takes deep breath* ok SO
Word of god canon is that the age order is Jack (19), Yusei (18), and Crow (17), at the start of the series.
But while you can make an argument that Yusei would have records, people who knew when he was born, or at least a birth certificate, Jack and Crow are orphans. If Jack is indeed 19, then he would have been roughly a year old when Zero Reverse happened, likely killing his parents, at the very least destroying a massive amount of city infrastructure. You tell me Jack knows his birthday and I press (X) to doubt.
Crow is apparently canonically younger than Yusei, but. His parents also died in Zero Reverse.
This. This straight up does not work.
Also Yusei is shown to be a baby when Zero Reverse occurred and if Crow's parents did indeed die in Zero Reverse when he was under a year old he there is NO WAY he would live much longer than that. That's just. How babies work.
CROW HOGAN HAS TO BE OLDER THAN YUSEI.
I will die on this hill. I watched the show thinking Crow was the middle brother and then learned their apparent canon ages after because he has to be older than Yusei for any of his backstory to make sense. Konami can fight me on this.
NARRATIVELY they are the middle and youngest child. Jack has Past motifs, Crow is Present, and Yusei is Future. Jack and Yusei's whole dynamic is the most oldest sibling vs youngest sibling drama possible.
As for Jack, I always like to think it was his birthday like, a week before Yusei leaves Satellite, because being a Newly Minted Twenty Year Old explains everything about his personality.
#jack and crow straight up dont have birth certificates#interesting note about Yusei's birthday: it is also apparently the same day as Zero Reverse. Which also just cant be true.#I choose to interpret that as the day Martha found Yusei and thats what all her kids celebrate instead of birthdays#and at some point Yusei just forgot thats not the actual day he was born#Im sorry konami if I'm not meant to read Yusei as the youngest of the three#why have Jack and Crow shelter him from physical and emotional abuse until they have to leave him for their own reasons#leaving Yusei in a dangerous home situation that he was previously unaware of because the other two functioned as a shield#HUH KONAMI???????????#Jack is SO eldest sibling coded#Crow is SO middle child coded#Yusei is SO youngest brother coded#I like to think Goodwin forged Jacks documents and made him like a year younger on paper just to screw with him#yugioh#yugioh 5ds#ygo 5ds#ygo#5ds#asks#answered asks#yusei fudo#jack atlas#crow hogan
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What was Leopardstar and Carpwhisker’s relationship like?
You know how in Fire Emblem Awakening how there's that side character whose entire existence is dedicated to a running joke that he's the biggest person in the room... but no one sees him, ever? To the point where they even end up thinking an extra goblet at dinner must belong to a ghost?
Face obscured by Chrom's knee on the box art, Mike Wazowski magazine style?
Carpwhisker.
I'm GUTTING Leopardstar's Haggis. It is in the bottom 5 WC entries for me. Leopardstar's childhood bullying was cheap and brainless. How fucking dare they, actually?
How dare they take their ONE confident, intimidating female character, DEFINED by how she was beloved in RiverClan and by her apprentice generation, had no romance, and wasn't a mother figure, and fuck up ALL THREE THINGS???
So. Anyway.
If anyone gets bullied it's Carpwhisker, still by Skyheart.
Brightsky didn't die; she became a kittypet. There were four kits.
Carp, Oat, Leopard, Water.
Mudfur took Carp and Leopard home, due to their resemblance to their famous ancestor, Volestar.
If Mudfur knew what Leopardstar would become... he would have left her there, with her mother. He regrets bringing her back to RiverClan
He feels he should have known better. He became a Cleric shortly after returning because he came to believe that the constant fighting was wrong, and yet...
What did he expect?
Carpwhisker is a nervous wreck who can't stand up for herself despite being as big as a badger, and Leopardstar eventually booked herself a rock appointment
I feel like at some point, Carpwhisker learned the secret about Brightsky... but keeps it to herself.
She can't imagine Leopardstar taking it well, "and um, she's..." (Carpwhisker grasps for words not wanting to outright say she's terrified of her) "...she's a wee bit intense about bad news."
You know that one post about the kid who got severely bullied in school, the teacher put on Dumbo, and they watched every single one of their bullies cheer for the underdog? All the bullies think they're Dumbo.
That's poor Carp. I feel like she used to really like Aftergatherings until Leopardstar told her about the reputation of those events, and that attending them was making Carp look disloyal.
People often take credit for her achievements. She was the one who made the Bonehill practical-- it's not solid bone, it's a mud facade with a layer of bone around it. Tigerstar said it was TigerClan's achievement, and his by proxy.
When Carpwhisker was struggling for breath to correct him, Leopardstar gave her a sideways glance and killed the thought.
So, Carp's relationship with Leopardstar is not great. But Carp defends her, and loves her, and insist she knows best.
Leopardstar is a better friend of Skyheart than she is a sister of Carp. Leopard's beloved by that whole group, and a natural leader from a young age.
I think when Leopardstar dies, Carp is distraught by it. Inconsolable, and it's really hard to tell her in that moment that it sounds like she's a lot better off without her.
She'd probably end up hanging out with Mothwing a lot, seeking spiritual advice. Moth just gives her normal, mortal, nonspiritual advice, but Carpwhisker thinks it's divine.
After all... they both did just lose very toxic siblings that they still loved very much, and are kinda working through that.
In terms of politics, Carpwhisker is a weak-traditionalist. Really, she just goes along with what's popular at the moment, and doesn't make waves. She's conflict-avoidant, and just tries to make others happy with her hard work.
Most of all she just wants peace, really. What if there were no problems forever and everyone was just nice and well-fed and we all took a big nap in this warm den I made. What then.
SO all that to say... She loved Leopardstar. Leopardstar was awful to her. "We're sisters! It's just like that!" (It Is Not Like That.) She was hidden in her shadow. She thought the shadow was normal. She's destroyed when her sister dies. She can only begin to recover once she's gone.
#BB!Carpwhisker#BB!Leopardstar#Better bones au#BB!Mudfur#If BB had book covers I would even have it like Carp keeps getting hidden behind things lmaoo#Like Mudfur leaving the home and the angle causes leopardkit to obscure Carpkit#But then if she had a big role later talking to Mothwing#FINALLY she'd be visible on the boxart and smiling#She's also got like 3 major deaths to go through in TNP#Her dad her sister and a child#Something about RiverClan cats just makes me want to put them through The Horrors i swear#tw abuse
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ghost having absolutely no self esteem until he joins the military and pinning his self-worth on his performance in the field, seeing his only value as a weapon which only gets worse when he’s legally dead and all but owned by the military makes me want to eat glass
#just this kid who was abused and neglected#also tormented by his little brother who he tries to protect from their father#hed be so starved of everything praise kindness touch#then he becomes a soldier and gets approval from an authority figure for the first time#and the better he is in the field the more reckless and ruthless the more praise he gets#he takes that confidence home#kicks out his abusive father gets his brother clean sees him make his own family and finally gets a crumb of happiness#then roba happens and he loses everyone hes ever loved in one fell swoop#and he kills simon riley right along with them#all he has left is the military#so he leaves behind his humanity and becomes an extension of the army#and theres no more praise no more approval bc you dont tell a gun its done a good job#until he joins the 141#and they slowly unearth simon riley from the grave#and they like him for who he is not what he can do for them#not who he can kill#and for the first time in his life he feels valued for who he is#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#simon ghost riley#ghost cod#soapghost#ghostsoap#we’re a team. ghost team
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I'm Finally Asking For Help by Mike-Dragon
https://ko-fi.com/mikedragon/goal?g=0
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Worst things characters from BOLAS have said or done
#playchoices#blades of light and shadow#bolas 2#blades 2#blades of light and shadow 2#blades mc#nia ellarious#mal volari#imtura tal kaelen#aerin valleros#tyril starfury#bolas kade#princess valax#threep#it’s all true but leaving an abusive home is hard actually#not that I condone what Aerin did ofc#just don’t wanna be flippant abt a real world issue#speaking of which#tyril my beloved does have his elven supremist faults#but he works through them in book 2#👍#my stuff
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having such an absolute shit time which is horrible because I had put so much effort into making this week bareable only to be fuckin stranded in the worst place I could be rn because my health was so bad I couldn't leave i feel so fucking bad and helpless and fated to having to suffer over and over and over
#was supposed to stop here to just grab one thing I needed!!! but have been so ill (chronic health bs) that I haven't been able to leave#for two days now and it is ruining me right now im like. in a really fucking bad place in every way jesus christ#stuck w someone who abused me for 20 years (not my ex lol she was shitty af but not abusive)#and shocker he is still gross and doesn't take no for an answer to anything and keeps touching me & not leaving me alone & I couldn't leave#I wouldn't wish this on anybody it absolutely breaks you to be stuck like this because your body doesn't work. I should have gone to the ER#So scared my health is getting worse in really dangerous ways. Could have died the other morning#like what the fuck!! what am I supposed to do I have been trying my best my whole life and it still amounts to being homeless and so sick#and so powerless to change either of those#all I want is a warm safe place to call home. It feels like I can never have that without a knife at my back#delete later#woof woof#vent
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I think sometimes we need to remember a books context
#this is about Stephen king#yes the author was high as shit on cocaine#which is probably why he wrote such horrific scenes#but also#a lot of women were stay at home wives even in the 80s#so yeah jacks wife didn’t leave him when he broke their sons arm#because leaving an abusive relationship is hard enough today#let alone in the 80s as a woman with no support or financial independence#you’re a teen in the 70s and your parents beat the shit out of you and you want out but you’re ugly and awkward and you find a car#and it’s ugly too but you can fix it up and you can see it now#so yeah you buy it and defend your decision against your friend#because you need some freedom#and some joy#the shining#christine#Stephen king#stephen king writes about human pride and error okay#honestly a lot of Stephen king stories are about someone in a rough headspace being taken advantage of#Jack was an alcoholic who was struggling to be a better person and the sprit of the hotel knew that#the boy in Christine and Carrie were both ugly and awkward teenagers needing a way out amd the evil gave them that#they guy in pet semetary had just suffered a horrific loss of his child and knew that there was a way to resurrect him#and he was being verbally abused by his in laws at his sons funeral prior#people in desperate places take desperate measures
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I know I don’t technically owe anyone and explanation but I want to put out there what’s going on and why I may have distanced myself or ended up losing mutuals because of cut contact.
on October eleventh my cat of eighteen years got put to sleep, which, has left me feeling empty and without reason to really do anything ? I was still working for a while and managing things but it progressed to a point where I was pacing any minute I was not doing anything and couldn’t sleep, spent the nights pacing the length of our property sometimes for hours at a time. my mum took me to the ER and they gave me sedatives which while acted to soothe it for a little bit didn’t solve the issue. when I returned home and was still exhibiting the symptoms she confronted me saying my cat was dead and I needed to get over it which ? was the last straw for me, she was screaming I was cowering it wasn’t fun. since then I’ve been staying with a friend who has taken me in and I’ve made progress but sleeping at night is still panic inducing for me and even with medication sometimes the insomnia still wins, I’ve been to the ER a few more times over the past two months and thankfully the pacing has stopped but the sleeping issues haven’t improved to the point where I’m able to sleep normally ? I still don’t know when it’s going to happen. I’m getting my PC from my mums house on the 28th so hopefully I’ll be able to write again but with how exhausted I am it can be difficult to even do the things I need to function day to day. I’ve had to give up my jobs as well so it’s just ? An on going ordeal. It’s been a rough two months but tbh I didn’t think I was going to make it to Christmas and I have so I’m just quietly hoping it improves even if it is slowly.
#animal death /#parental abuse /#I don’t consider it abuse per se but she chased me out of my home but showing not an ounce of sympathy#and the screaming in my face just made me need to leave#I don’t know when I’ll be recovered and I can only take a day at a time but#any mutual I’ve had throughout the year who has plotted or chatted with me I love you#but I’m so exhausted ALOT of the time just from showering and eating#and I feel so much guilt for it too#here’s to hoping next year is a recovery year and that things do improve further than this#but I’m not a walking zombie all the time like I was at the start of November when I left home#ooc
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