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ill be 18 by then, by february to be specific. high school is ending for me, class of 2025. i’m starting college next year. i hope to get my BFA in studio art, specifically in metal; and jewelry work. when college starts, i really hope by then i’ll be moved out. i’ll be closer to campus and i can have my friends over basically whenever they want to drop by. i wont have to deal with the anxiety of sharing a roof with my parents. i REALLY hope i can grow my jewelry business, i want to share my work and maybe grow some sort of status. honestly the thing i want most is freedom, i cant wait to do whatever i want. i have free will and i must use it while i can.
- i
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I graduated high school back in June and turned 18 a few months later back in August of this year. I feel you on wanting independence as someone who spent most of my teen years being denied the opportunity to leave the goddamned house on my own and to come home from school on my own in the afternoons until I was fucking 17.
I do often go on little outings on days where I don't have any classes or will sometimes stop by the mall or elsewhere on the way home. I try to make the most of these little outings and have plans to eventually go out to places out a little further than I've been going on my own that are like 2 or so hours away by bus. I feel like this urge stems from my adolescence and the way I was treated in the past few years of my life until last year.
What helicopter parents/other relatives (like the one I've had to deal with) don't seem to realize is that children are like springs; the more you compress them, the harder they'll bounce once the pressure holding them down is lifted. Trying to shelter a teenager from the boogeymen that you fear are constantly lurking outside of your home WILL backfire sooner or later, though the degree to which the child resists will depend on how much autonomy they feel as though they've lacked in their younger years and are now only getting to compensate for as young adults.
But yes, freedom is amazing and basically a sort of "forbidden fruit" to those shielded from it.