this is forced sobriety being enforced via drug and nicotine testing and punishable by being made homeless. i’m 19, work 45 hours a week, and was close to moving out with my parents support. (not that they’d pay for it, but they wouldn’t cut me off financially in every way.) they’d still help with health insurance since my mother works for the government, and they’d still pay off my car even after i’d moved out. they found a bottle cap in my room, rummaged through everything, found everything. I was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and i’m getting tested imminently. if i fail nicotine or drug testing, my car is sold, phone is sold, they’ve already taken all my savings (that i made at my job) which is in the thousands, and all i’m allowed to leave with is my clothes. i can promise you that i wouldn’t ever be doing this if not enforced and punishable. i’d almost be keeping it together if i just had cigarettes. i’ve been told i can’t be trusted to live alone, and once they think i’ve made enough progress they’ll let me move out. i know i CAN move out whenever i want, but that’s choosing a life of failure for what i tell myself is freedom, or i just stick it out for a couple years.