How old were you when you finally moved out on your own?

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19.

I first moved out at 19 years old, then had to move back in six months later due to family illness.

I then moved out at age 21 to begin my University studies, came back home at age 23 due to an excellent job opportunity in my hometown (good paying job+no rent to pay = debts to clear..)

A year later, I got offered a transfer to another city which I could not refuse, and I subsequently moved out again.

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I left my mother at 24, and was meant to return to her after spending some days with a male friend but I ended up not going back due to a variety of things, including being in a different situation for first time in my life.

So I dont know if that counts since I wasn't truly independent, otherwise, it would be when I was 29 when I left my ex and moved into a shared student house.

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double post.

I have a dilemma about this, I want to , but then the anxieties and the blah blah about waiting too long. I hit 30 in a couple years so I know that time is passing by.

But hey there are plenty of NTs out there that are probably in the same situation, geez for many there is nothing wrong with them at all.

18, because I was going to university too far away from home to commute. It was very, very hard, but I'm soooo glad I did it!

At age 22 i moved out on my own.
I'm 23 now so it wasn't too long ago.
I've enjoyed how it's laid back and stress free.
My family, especially my mom would quickly lose it.
It took verry little to make her go crazy if things didn't go her way.
She was like Stress itself.

In the past 5 months by myself i've become verry independant.
I really cannot imagine going back.

I was just turned 22

I spent al lot of time in boarding school as a kid which was hell. Lived in halls and also room let on my placement from uni. But I've never really been full self-sufficient despite not being much of a family orientated person (at least not my family).

I am stuck still living at home at 25 starting to reach the point of despair and having a break down. I would live alone if I could support myself properly and be able to lock after myself, remember to eat and get things done the same time. I feel so locked in. I hate being here, it is shameful. I just wish I didn't have these cognitive problems. I am perusing all the options with the all I the energy I have left, but there is any certainty yet. I don’t want to give up I have so many curiosities. There is just a limit to how long you can go on. It is not just about living at home. Anyone has the choice to destroy their life, build it up again. I want that option. I want to be my own person. It is worse when my folks want to make be a part of the routine. That is like accepting I’m stuck here.

Iwas f****d up in the reverse method , to say the least , at 20 , after being commited by my paprents , I was told at that time that I could never come home again - They had kept me around until I was comittedd anyway = I guess psychatitrists told them to say that-
So , by that concept , "a sheltered workshop" or similar were the best.all that I could look forward to. Boo hoo hoo.

I left home when I started University at the age of 18. I lived in a dorm by myself and later shared an apartment with my brother (who was also at the same university). He was helpful with taking care of the rent and such. I now live in a place by myself, but I'm a lot more lonely than I was when I was in the dorms.

Will: Yeah, I totally understand you man. I also left at 18, well, at seventeen actually, to attend university, and boy, sometimes I still miss all the crowds of people in dorms buildings.
*sigh*

I moved out at 17 to finish college, and was counting down the days, let me tell you. I would have left the year before if I could have. Then 1 year in the dorms, 1 year in an apt with a roommate, and then I had to move back in with my parents after graduation for the summer while I was looking for a job, which was miserable for all concerned. Then I moved out and got my own place for the next 6 years. Man, I was lonely living on my own after being in college. But so much better than living with my parents, and my cats helped. Now this year I got married and am living with my husband (when he's home, anyway, sometimes it seems lonelier than living alone). I really like the control of living on my own and doing things the way I liked... it's the loneliness that's the killer. Having people around just because they live there really helps when you aren't very good at making friends :S... sad but true. And I'm saying this and I don't even like "people" that much.
Living contradiction...

I moved out at 18 having got my first wage pack. I would have been allowed to to have moved out at 16 had I been living with my mum rather than my dad.

I had to move out for my own sanity, else I would have killed myself.

I did not know why my dad and ex-headmasterwere so worried abot it and thought I wouldn't cope; I had been running the household at home since I was 9 when my mother was in mental hospital and then living separetly from us. My little brother and I did everything apart from earn the money - budgeted the housekeeping, shopped, did the clothes at the laundrette, paid the rent bills at the post office, wired plugs and managed our time well. - so there was no adjustment, I just took to it like a duck to water.