u/ifidrownthenidrown

i was planning on saving up but i can't wait any longer. i'm going to try buy kit for £300 and leave asap. my parents will probably disown me lol. i just can't be in society anymore, i tried going back to school but i just hate formal stuff and i think it's all cookie cutter systems anyway. i'm in the uk, 18f, some experience with sleeping outside, very acquainted with risk lol, mature i guess and resourceful. what kit should i buy with £300/$400?

bets budget footwear from european companies? (in in the eu and delivery will be quicker as opposed to ordering from the US).

i want to leave. i hate living in a fixed room where i can't leave. it's too much. i just don't want to leave and be re-exposed to the homeless treatment that got when i ran away. i really want to leave but i want it to be as safe as possible. i've only brought a 3-season tent. i live in the UK. i really want to leave but my mum thinks i'm crazy and everything seems terribly scary and difficult. help? what should i buy first?

I'm 19f. My birthplace and country of residence is United Kingdom. I want to volunteer abroad to do something humanitarian, but I don't know how to start. How do I start?

title question?

sources/guide for edible wild food? also, how did you survive w/o paying for food?

I'm trying to redo my a-levels but having 0 family support and motivators is difficult. I'm worried a lot of the time and since I'm not in a physical school, i have to do them online. I'm a bit hopeful, because there is a lot of support for estranged prospective students from unis, but for me it's it's quite lonely because I don't have anyone around me in my similar experience. Is anyone here in a similar experience, if so could we dm?

I'm interested in tech, coding and the mechanical bits. I'm considering studying Computer Science at uni, but I've heard so many horror stories about unemployment post-grad. Is it a good idea to study Computer Science at uni?

can i dye my skin blue or something off the brown colour spectrum, permanently? if yes, what is the safest method?

getting ready to leave but what should i do to cover my back from all the 'you need a fixed address' stuff, and potentially ordering things? a p.o box has its negatives and positives...(england)

what problems should i expect from a £4000 camper van?

getting ready to leave!! i'm trying to minimise my stuff so i never will worry about baggage and weight etc. i plan to work for board so tents and sleeping stuff are ok to leave out i guess

i've cooked this.

any carb with just one or two spoons of butter and 2-5 pinches of salt is good to me.

boil pasta, drain pasta water (leave a little, add 1/2 spoonfuls of butter and 2-4 pinches of salt. mix it all together... so good

you can do it with rice as well. my favourite is spagetti and butter. very good. haven't tried adding garlic yet but i might soon. may add some chives or herbs to make it fancy. dipping toast in melted butter etc...

use it as a snack cause carbs are good for energy plus fat is good for energy. very good if ur low on energy and need something easy to gain weight and to energise you

i feel like poverty really makes you masculine. this is for females. i feel horrible that i don't have enough money to feel alright in myself and not enough money to move from rough neighbourhoods, or not enough money to be ok. this is a new experience for me

i'm really glad that this post got some traction, hopefully it'll let women feel more secure in poverty and femenity

i went NC with my family. hopefully i'll never see them again. i'm really struggling with jumping from the old bridge to the new bridge, and severing the connection behind. (i don't want to make a rule where i say i must NEVER speak to them because it seems like NC is a punishment rather than a reward.)

i tried to do it before but i turned back when things became difficult. so this time around, i'm going to slowly cut off connections from my past and slowly build new thing in the present and future.

could someone write how they did this or something similar? how did you struggle or survive?

advice? 19f. i've moved away from my parents now. first step checked. though i live in a neighbouring city to them. i don't like where i'm at or any fixed address because i feel like i have to stick to the identity that people around me think of me as.

anyway, i'm scared to do the next steps like going completely no contact, changing names, giving myself truly a unblemished CLEAN slate... maybe moving to northern ireland.

i don't have many close friends that i can fall back on if times get tough, but i have God. idk.

can someone share their experiences? did you do this at my age? advice?

can i buy a good enough boat for full time living for under 10k? if yes, then what sort of boat, and examples? i'm in the uk. i plan to anchor but moor in the winter. no experience with sailing lol but i plan to do the day skipper course.

i need to escape my house. i'm 18f i turn 19 in a few weeks. i plan to buy hiking gear and just go somewhere but after reading some posts about women's experiences idk. i was going to make myself intentionally homeless and hike around scotland but idk. idk what to do. this is a fleeting interest tbf

i moved away from my parents but my biological mom keeps calling me and pestering me; it's making me paranoid because she's manipulative and she has the potential to ask our mutual people for my address (she doesn't know it now). i think it would give closure to all parties if we just settled the matter that we mutually dislike each other and that i don't want them to ever be in my life or find me or think about me. i searched it up and idk if it's totally legal...? i want to do it a legal way and i don't know. i'm changing my surname soon, may change my full name...? idk how to plan this well without getting in trouble with the law and management with my actual death for whenever it comes (i.e. pre- or post- my NC parents' death.)

sorry this is my third and final post (for today) but i just found this subreddit and it's very very refreshing and helpful to me. how do you guys deal with looking in the mirror and seeing your parents' features play out on your face?

im 19 now so my face has changed and not so babyish now but i don't know how to deal with looking in the mirror and lowkey seeing my parents' features. i feel like there's an odd phantom connection with them when i see my face, and it's like the only thing that is theirs that i own that won't abandon me. like i'll have their genes and dna even if they act as if they sort of didn't birth me. it reminds me that i'm human and no matter what- DID have parents, even if they make me feel like i'm not and that i'm not theirs. i have to remember that i wasn't popped out of the air, i came out of my mum and it's crazy because i disowned so much that she really made me believe that i wasn't hers.

maybe CPTSD and being treated like a slave to them or subhuman is a common experience in this subreddit; when i get those nasty memories i remind myself that i'm not a mindless slave to them because i have a BRAIN and EYES and in my case very similar features to them. it's sad because when i was younger, my mum said she didn't like that i looked like my dad, but as i reach adulthood i look like my mum.