Parents won't let me move out
My sincerest apologies if this doesn't quite fit in this sub. The problem isn't necessarily the fact that I was homeschooled (although that's definitely part of it), but that my parents are withholding things from me and trying to force me to live with them. Here's the general gist of it:
- They refuse to give me my personal info (specifically my birth certificate and SSN).
- I have no form of secondary ID whatsoever (not even a student ID obviously; and no medical records on hand either since I've never seen a doctor).
- So I can't get an ID.
- So I can't get a job or open a bank account.
- Even if I did have a job, we live too far from town to walk there every day, and I don't have a driver's license (surprise, they refused to teach me to drive, too).
- I tried looking into remote work to cut out the transportation issue, but even at that, I'd still need an ID/bank account (also, a quiet place to work, which I don't really have).
- Any money I've "made" throughout my life doing chores or whatnot didn't even belong to me - my parents would keep it on one of their accounts, and if I wanted to buy something, I had to go through them to get it. Recently, I got them to give me my money in physical cash, but now they won't let me do chores anymore, as if they just really don't want me having any money.
- I'm not allowed to have my own mail.
- They've always severely limited my internet access.
- I don't have a phone number either.
- I can't leave the house at night, because they have door alarms set up and won't give me the code for them.
- I've never had a real-life friend, and I've been cut off from all my non-immediate family, so I don't have anyone else I could stay with or ask for help.
Whenever I make them angry enough, there's always the "Well why don't you just get out of my house, then?" threat that they so love to make. So I'm scared to try certain things for fear of possibly getting kicked out. For instance, if I could manage to scrounge up some documents for an ID, I could technically try to make the hike to town, it wouldn't kill me or anything...but when I got back, they'd definitely start a shouting match with me, and if they made me leave I don't know what I'd do.
They love taking things away from me if I make them mad, too. After an argument we got into recently, for example, they've limited my internet access to an hour or two a week (so please excuse me if I don't read through your posts very soon).
If this isn't just some load of legal loopholes and there's genuinely something illegal going on here, then technically I could call the police, but then I worry I might end up homeless just the same. I sure as heck can't afford a lawyer, and anyway, it's not like I have a heap of evidence under my belt.
I feel like there has to be something I can do, but I just don't know what it is.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.
Edit: 21F, also I live in Florida.