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I want to move out.

I'm 17, turn 18 in 9 months. I live with my mother who won't get a job, lives of Centrelink(government assistance) and is on medication for being schizophrenic. I have a two year old brother who I basically raise, I feed him, wash him and play with him. I'm forced to take on responsibilities a parent should do, not a child. I'm a child and I should be able to be one and I'm forced to not be one because I have an encompident mother who refuses to stop having kids even though she can't look after them. She has 5 kids all to different men, has only worked twice in the time I've been alive and lost both of her jobs. She doesn't try to get a new job, just gets pregnant and lives off of Centrelink and says "well when the get to school age I'll get a job" and never does.

I've been trying to get a job and am still applying wherever I can. I start to get my payments from Centrelink that my mum currently gets soon. I have to pay $75 in rent. I live in a shitty two bedroom unit, doesn't even have carpet, or aircon. With those payments after paying rent I'll only have $40 each week, which I'll be putting away for a car.

But I seriously don't think I can live here until I've finished school, I just can't. I'm too stressed out by things that I shouldn't be stressing about until I have my own children. I can't even go out with friends sometimes because I have to watch my brother. Because apparently that's what I'm meant to do. Because I totally chose to have a child and watch it right?

I've tried talking to my mum about this but it never gets through. My older sisters did the same thing and nothing came out of it. My sisters moved out at 17 and 16, but both of them where pregnant. So I'm thinking if they can do it with a kid, then me doing it without a kid to look after would be a thousand times easier.

The thing is, that without a job I can afford to move. But I could actually do it if I didn't have to spend so much money on rent. If I didn't have to pay for rent, I'd have around $230 a fortnight to save. It's not just rent I have to pay for either, it's everything. As soon as I get my money in my name, besides Christmas and birthdays I have to pay for everything I want and need.

I need some advice, anything that could be helpful for me moving out, I also still want to go to school and completely it and go on to uni.

Sorry for the rant, just really need help and advise from another point of view. Feel free to ask questions if anything is unclear

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