<p>I really hate my parents. I feel as if they seek pleasure in destroying who I am as a person. I was recently accepted into Georgia Tech and really wanted to go and am going to be taking student loans to go. However, my parents have forbid it and told me to go to a local community college. I am 18 but I’m still afraid of telling no to them. Recently they have been beating me and tearing up all of my work as punishment since I am a second semester senior and have slightly slacked off and my grades have reflected my attitude. After t I had spent 4 years of high school taking 3 IB science classes along with other AP/IB classes just so I could go to a community college, I slacked off since I didn’t see the point of working so hard when people at my school who don’t do any work are still being paid to go to community college. Also when I told them that tearing up my work wouldn’t help me, they destroyed my science fair project since I was being “disrespectful”. This poster for scifair was supposed to be for INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair, which I have spent over 500 hours of my personal time on. My parents tell me I’m worthless and seek to manipulate my weaknesses. They mock me and my friends and tell me that I don’t deserve to live. Although they are seeking to destroy me, I do have my faults. I like to play video games which they are extremely opposed to. Whenever they catch me or whenever they feel they have been disrespected, I am beaten. I have been dragged over the carpet so my entire back was bleeding from carpet burns. I have been thrown onto the ground and beaten and trampled on while in the fetal position. My dad has thrown everything at me, my mom has used rope to bind me, then used fish string to bind me further so that it will cut into my skin, they have spat in my face, destroyed the things I place value in, and in the end they tell me they do this out of love for me. I am so confused and while I hate them for what they do, I don’t know if this is how they express their love. Has anybody experienced this? I don’t know what to do and don’t know who I should turn to talk to without getting my parents into trouble. I have considered people from my church but I’m not sure. Also, my religion has always been a source of conflict. My parents have been strict christians and I though I believed too but every time they beat me, they tell me that I am devil spawn. This hypocrisy is seriously making me doubt about my religion and thus my identity. I’m so confused. Can anybody help me out?</p>
<p>Dear, you need to tell someone about this, be it a school counceler, teacher, or even a parent of one of your friends.</p>
<p>You cannot let this keep going on, you are only hurting yourself. How much further will they go before you end up in the hospital?</p>
<p>And since you are 18 you can legally go to the police and file a report on them.</p>
<p>Yes, if this is real, go to the police.</p>
<p>Your parents are behaving in a criminal manner. Contact the police.</p>
<p>The people at your school can help you contact the police and social services. If you tell your teachers, the guidance counselor, the school nurse, heck, even a janitor, the are legally obligated to report this kind of abuse. You don’t have to call the police on your own.</p>
<p>And get your science teacher to help you come up with the new poster. In a case like this, I’m sure he/she can do that.</p>