become more independent

Progress:

• Have my own driver’s license and car and am comfortable driving on my own to most places, and can find my way using Google maps.
• Schedule and go to appointments with Carroll on my own.
• Schedule and go to appointments with DORS and Pathways on my own.
• Have a job, earning money on my own and starting to get into the work force so I can find better jobs in the future. Also drive myself to and from work.
• Drive myself anywhere I want to go, don’t need permission from anyone or to inform anyone, and can get gas on my own.
• Arranged a doctor’s appointment with Dr. Leon on my own and plan to go to it on my own and fill out all the insurance information by myself. It will be my first doctor’s appointment I scheduled and will go to on my own.
• Went to the MVA and renewed my license on my own.
• Use a credit card instead of always asking my mother for cash.
• Have Chris and his family so I don’t have to always rely on my own family for everything.
• Go grocery shopping or clothes shopping on my own whenever I need to.
• Sign up for college courses on my own, arrange meetings with the guidance counselors on my own.

Things to work on:

• Arranging all of my doctor’s appointments on my own, and going to them without my mother with me. Including when I get my blood drawn and when I see my gynecologist. Also need to get to the dentist and I should do this on my own as well.
• Getting my prescriptions filled on my own. Should be easy, just take them to CVS and do it myself.
• Handling my bank account on my own. Including getting my checks from work cashed or into savings on my own. And arranging to have access to my bank account online.
• Getting more comfortable with driving places. Still anxious about things. I don’t want to rely on other people for rides when I can do it myself. I can use Google maps to plan things out, and I’ll get more comfortable the more I practice.

Hello girls.
I just broke up with bf not long ago, I am in university with lots of school work and living with an roomate now.
looking at youguys’ experience just make me want to work harder to become the girl I would love myself to be. independed, happy, charming, valuable, and lots of love towards others .
some tips on how to be more independend would be greate for me right now~! thanks : )

I’ve been saving which makes me feel really great and like I can rely on myself in a financial way. And I really feel like I am beginning to be happier with myself and find myself again. I definitely still have a ways to go but I’m getting there.

However, my progress on getting my license has basically slowed to a stand still. I am saving to get a car though : )

I’m continuing to grow more and more independent. I do pretty much everything on my own now. What I need now is to find a job, so I don’t need to always rely on my parents for money. And I need to learn to schedule and go to doctor’s appointments on my own. Right now these are the main things that I’m relying on my parents for and need to learn to do on my own.

This is coming together:

Just got a job, graduated high school, and am working on getting my license and a car.

Then hopefully, I’ll have my own money and my own way to get places and I won’t be relying on everyone else as much. As for being so dependent on Scott, hopefully I can start to find myself after all the other stuff falls into place.

This is possibly the biggest step I am going to take towards becoming independent. I am moving out of my mum’s house and moving into a student house with my 3 male friends: Chaz, Niall and Rob. My contract starts on the 24th of June but I wont officially move in until September when University starts again. So far now I am still living at home and cant wait till I move out :)

I want to be brave enough to rely only on myself…

I finally was able to do things on my own, like going to interviews, meetings w/o my mom taking me. o_O Or taking care of my own person business; Medicaid issues, going to the doctor, etc. I still have a way to go but it’s a start. Yupp

I have been babied and it has ruined my train of being able to think like a healthy and stable adult at 19. It has caused major setbacks and problems in my life. I realize that in order for me to be happy and mentally stable, I need to learn how to separate myself from my ‘rents without going crazy for a while. Yupp.

In December I went out and met some friends at a restaurant/ bar/ reunion alone. I really didn’t have any anxiety about it at all. In fact I wanted to go alone. My mom was shocked. She said you’re going alone?? You sure have made progress! That made me feel proud!