I won't go into full details but my childhood wasn't great. There was a lot of physical abuse, emotional abuse and looking back, cohesive abuse. There was drugs and alcohol involved, I grew up poor and on benefits.
I would like to point out I'm not against anyone on benefits but I vowed to never be like my family and to never rely on benefits ever. No one in my family had any GCSEs and A-levels and as you can guess no one went to university either.
Due to my home life, it was really difficult to complete my GCSEs due but my God did I made it. I achieved 7 GCSEs and my family wasn't happy about it. I went on to do my A-levels and my family wasn't happy. As they weren't happy it they purposedly did anything they could to stop me from completing my A-levels but they failed and I passed it, even though it was more difficult due to them.
I should have said before I just wrote that paragraph that I felt I became the adult when I was about 11-years-old. They were bad with money and so we wouldn't become homeless I made sure that the one thing that would be paid on time was the rent, as well as electric so we wouldn't become homeless. I also made myself responsible for keeping the house tidy and maintaining it as if it wasn't for me the house would have been completely trashed. I would say it would have been like the filthy homes you see on TV but probably worse.
To avoid home as much as possible I would often go to the library to do school work or just sit and read to avoid coming home and I would often go to free activities for people my age in my local town to delay coming home as late as possible.
Due to the abuse I suffered for a long time I thought I couldn't be independent and would always have to rely on my family for support. Luckily, I was able to escape, only due to an unfortunate tragedy in my life. My step-grandmother passed away, she didn't have much, she knew I was being abused and tried to help me get out of the situation without success. I didn't know a will was a thing, but I found out when she died, she left me everything, it wasn't much just her retirement home and everything in that, there was also a bit of money in the bank she left.
I am young and in my early 20s, I didn't want to be stupid with all this money so I made an appointment to speak with a financial advisor, he advised me what I should do. He said I could use x amount of money to live comfortably for the next two or three years, put x amount of money in investment, and put the rest into a savings account I can't touch and use that to save for a deposit for a house in the future, which I've done.
Due to the inheritance, I left the family home, I did feel at the time that I still couldn't live without my family so I gave them my address. I regret that now, I've decided to move again and I'm considering not telling anyone - friends or family that I'm moving.
I currently live in a county and plan to move to a city in the UK where I will be attending university, I've been classed as an estranged student so I will be getting a lot of support especially to heal mentally, emotionally and physically.
I'm sorry for the long post, I just felt I had to explain my situation fully. If I move without my telling anyone could they do something, like report me as a missing persons for instance?