Is this a place to vent...

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If I'm putting this in the wrong place please let me know, or move it maybe (not sure how that works), or I can delete it if need be.

I just feel like letting off some steam.

I have trouble focusing every day on the things I love because of the sound of AC units, my parents playing movies/youtube/music loudly on their computer, things touching me (clothing, edge of table/chair, hair, etc.), dogs walking across the hard floor because their nails scrape across, and other things. I work for my dad in construction, and I think he may be bipolar because he has this two week cycle where one week he'll be drinking all day and sleeping and staying at home with my mom while I work at the job with my brother, and another week where he gets very frenetic and irritable and manic. This adds to my being unable to focus on my own interests after work, because I have no schedule I can follow because the entire job depends on him. It's disrupting and and confusing and I feel completely lost.
There are videos that I love to watch on youtube that have to do with science, and I get mad sometimes because the problem is, videos are usually a lot of details homogenized into something very hard to pick apart (which is why I prefer reading and internet research). I've never been able to grasp gestalt wholes such as that. And tonight the rest of my family were watching a video with me, and they seemed to get it, and I would be stuck on something the guy in the video said minutes before. And still come out with no idea what happened because it's like a series of random pinpoints and not enough time to take them all in.
I feel worthless; I feel like I'll never amount to anything. I know this will probably pass but it's a feeling I get often. I don't think I'll ever be able to live by myself, because I would just stay home and daydream and get absorbed in stuff I'm passionate about and not go to work and then I won't be able to pay the bills.
I don't want to live by myself anyways because I get scared when I'm home by myself.
I still can't drive alone and I've had a permit for over two years. Traffic is confusing and without my brother in the passenger seat guiding me I think something bad will happen. If a store changes its parking lot layout, it's frustrating and scary and confusing and I usually end up doing the wrong thing and people glare at me from other cars. One time we were at an all-way stop sign, and my brother was looking at his phone, and I got so caught up in a memory I had that I completely forgot I was driving and I was staring into space. That's only happened once but it should ever have happened at all
Anyhow, I just wanted to rant. I don't have any friends (other than my boyfriend who lives on the other side of the world and my brother) so I thought maybe this was an appropriate place. Correct me if I'm wrong.

some days are diamonds, some days are stones, or at least best experienced stoned.

Definitely, feel free to vent here if you want... I think you'll find plenty of sympathetic people on here that can understand whatever you happen to be going through at the time. Or even ask questions on what might be done to lighten your mood a bit, in the given situation.

That being said, yes, I can definitely confirm you're not alone on alot of that stuff. Living by yourself, for instance.... I cant do it either, nor can a number of people in this place. In my case, it'd be a bloody disaster. Sorta for the same reason why I do not, for instance, use a stove or oven, since I'm so spacey most of the time (and no, I dont drink or do drugs, not even the tiniest bit of either) that it'd actually be dangerous. And I cant organize things worth a crap. Even now, there's just random junk everywhere, and I'm not even going to try to describe the monstrous web of cables that hangs to my left. And, I've never been able to hold a job. Simple jobs, mind you; more complex ones would make for a total mess. Fortunately I dont have to work anymore.

I can sorta understand the bit about driving as well.... I'm curious, what kind of area do you live in? A big city, or somewhat "urban" or crowded area, or out in the country, sort of middle of nowhere? I think, if it's in a city or somewhere like that... it's just genuinely more confusing and difficult to grasp all the concepts necessary to drive, because of constant chaos and an endless stream of what are often rather braindead drivers. I live in the middle of freaking nowhere myself, travelling mainly on broken-down roads that may or may not actually go somewhere, surrounded usually by nothing but grass, trees, and maybe a farm sometimes. I drove into the city exactly once (Chicago, a couple of hours from here), and well.... never.... again. Just never doing that again. No way. You couldnt PAY me to go back to that nightmarish concrete hellhole. I cant do that. How I even managed to drive back out of that awful place, I'll never know.

....also I've done the "space out while driving" thing before. Though... it doesnt really happen these days anymore. Eventually, you learn to not do that. Hopefully not the hard way.

And as for not having friends... who knows, you could meet some on here. Lots of good people here, really. And seemingly no trolls or such, unless there's some hiding somewhere that I dont know about.

But anyway.... yeah, come here if you need to vent, or have questions, or... whatever. That's what this place is for after all, yeah?