<p>@stressedouttt</p>
<p>the friends thing i suggested for the reasons lookingforward is saying. you’d think if the OP had some good friends then he could stay over with them right. if you were the OPs friend wouldn’t you be sympathetic to his home life situation and let him stay over with you? the reason why he is living at home tolerating those awful rules, restrictions, obligations and everything else must be because he has no where else better to go which is pretty sad. im not saying find a friend to help you pay for school, it’d be nice and it’s something <em>i’m</em> interested in but it’s not really a realistic for everybody. but i think you only end up in situations like the OPs if you don’t have any where else to go.</p>
<p>@mathyone</p>
<p>you see the insanity of his parents rules. i don’t think a discussion would be possible. you want him to discuss something with those people, parents who keep the cupboards locked and track the items in the fridge, make him clean but don’t let him use the appliances.i don’t think so. </p>
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<p>what about sleeping over at the school. i knew a kid who once lived in the physics lab at his school for months just so he could be next to computers for access to the internet and forums because he didn’t have his own for the first year of college. what if you slept over night in the library or something on mondays. then you wouldn’t have to make the commute home that day or the commute there tuesday morning. but not just mondays, you could sleep over more frequently than that even. there’s got to be people who would feel bad for you, feed you, and make sure you’re all right. it sounds a bit extreme and i’m not sure what your parents would think, but maybe? i mean there’s got to be somewhere you could sleep on campus or teachers or staff who could accommodate for you. like you don’t need to bring up how your parents lock the cupboards or make you do hours of chores each night, just say home is not a good place to be for you and you have no where else to go or mention how the commute is so exhausting and cold, so you’d rather sleep at the school.</p>