Well . No thanksgiving for you then <| sep |> That , at 22 , I ' m living with heavily emotionally abusive parents , and can ' t move out . They have kept me dependent on them , and have made it almost impossible to move out . I have a parttime job , but it was approved by them and is in the same shopping center as my mother . I ' m licensed to drive , but I ' m only allowed to use my father ' s truck to go select places work , store , and home . I pay slightly outrageous rent while also providing all my other necessities , and it leaves very little if any to put into my savings account on average my bank account is empty by tuesday when i get paid on thursday . I was stopped from going to college for one reason or another transportation , loss of FASFA because they apparently filed their taxes wrong , etc . I ' m estranged from both sides of my family , every relationship I try to get into ends up becoming so strained they usually end before they start , and the few friends I have are almost all through the internet because they don ' t want to deal with all the complications I have . My parents have left me with bad anxiety , the inability to deal with people socially , no backboneself confidence to speak of , zero sense of selfworth , and a laundry list of baggage including but not limited to crying when talked to loudly , jumping when someone tries to touch me , automatically lying about my home lifechildhood , and being a door mat to anyone with a strong opinion . I won ' t go into the details about actual events , but they did everything they could short of physical abuse even then there was once after I turned 18 that that happened . Since I ' m trying to slowly get out of my situation by myself , and that alone feels like one of the twelve layers of Hercules . My savings account is growing by the pennies , and despite a mediocre g . p . a . in high school I ' m trying to find an affordable college that will take me . On the surface my parents look like good godfearing people , and I can ' t really say anything against them without looking like an ungrateful child my mother fosters animals , runs a church discussion group for women , and takes elderly women grocery shopping . While my father is one of those classical stoic bread winners . I made the mistake of saying something in high school about my home life . Even after a home visit from Child Services I was told that I was just being a teenager upset with their parents . It makes it even harder to say anything now about this without having that little voice in my head that ' s just saying I ' m doing this for attention , and that I ' m complaining about nothing that doesn ' t happen in other families .