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“When I was 15 years old, my mom kicked me out of the house and I went to stay with my older brother and his wife and their two children at their house. My brother asked me to do some things that I really didn’t like doing, like lie to his wife about his excessive drinking, so I decided to leave my brother’s place after a year and move in with my boyfriend at the time. So my mom and dad found out about this and didn’t like the fact that I had moved in with my boyfriend because they never really liked him. In hindsight, I wish I had listened to them about this guy, but when you’re young and dumb, you know everything, and I figured, what was I supposed to do, because they kicked me out.”
“I found out after moving in with my boyfriend at the time that I would not be able to ride the school bus to my original school because it was outside of that district. I didn’t have a vehicle, and my boyfriend had a full-time job and was unable to take me to and from school, so I had to transfer schools. But my parents didn’t see it that way, and because they were upset with the choices that I was making, they decided to refuse to transfer me and offered zero support as far as how I should get back and forth to school without a place to live within that district. So after missing like 21 days of school in one month, I finally spoke with the school counselor to explain what was going on. They filed for the paperwork to emancipate me, and everything was approved within a couple of days. At that point, I was able to withdraw from my school and enroll myself at the school where my boyfriend and I lived, and I was able to ride the bus and continue going to school. However, I actually stopped going to school after about a week of that and ended up getting my GED a couple of years later.”
—Anonymous
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/emancipated-teens
