You absolutley need to talk to the cops, or your school counselor. Those are the first steps to making this man right. If however, you do not want to move out for SPECIFIC reasons, grab a knife. If he comes to try and beat you, stab him. Several times if needs be. However, you should NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER do that first. You talk to the cops, or your school counselor. I see absolutley no reason why YOU have not taken action. If for somereason you want to take no action whatsoever YOUR OPINION IS WRONG! take a course of action, whatever that may be.

Get out man. Please....just get out....

Get out of there as fast as you can. It may seem brash, but just trust me. If you have any friends that you can crash with for a while, go there. Then start sorting things out. Go to the police. I know it's a risk, but you have to get someone with authority involved. But please, don't risk getting seriously injured, or worse, by being passive about it.

But in the end I'll still be on my own. I'm in my 3rd year of high school, planning for college, and am in all honors classes. Having to take a job or two to support myself wouldn't be a good idea at this point in life.

Like I said, waiting for him to make the first move.

Pack, and hide the backpack. Get all of your stuff together so you can leave in an instant, and be relatively prepared to live on your own for a little while, but wait for him to make the first move.

You don't want to overreact and run away (not in a negative sense, run away as in get the hell out), but you want to be able to if you need to. Pack up an extra backpack or something with money, flashlights, batteries, bandaids, paper, pencil, anything else you think you might possibly need, and just be ready incase you have to use it.

I can't house you unfortunately, but I was serious in that other thread about you moving up here to Charlotte. I'd be more than happy to have you around.

Yeah, not the best alternative right off because you wouldn't have a confirmed place to stay, but you'd be around a friend, and I know most of my friends would accept you right off.

I can tell you what happened...The guy's a psycho. He's probably bipolar or something...Where his mood goes up and down without warning or reason. If it's not controlled, it can be dangerous, like in your case....Where he's hitting you with objects for no reason one minute, then the next he's giving you your allowance back. There's something not right, and it's not the situation, it's his head.

Is your uncle a manic depressive (bipolar, whatever)? Sure seems that way. In any case, a friend of mine is now living with another friend for the past year to get away from loco parents. Again, I'm sure at this point everyone agrees that you should get away to avoid any more physical harm.

If your grades are good, you should get financial aid to collegw anyway. The government will indeed lend you a helping hand in this situation. If you have no emotional ties, get the hell outta there.

That reeminds me of some leagal show (like Law and Order. maybe it was 'Judging Amy') i watched awhile ago:

"WE move that it is <some name>'s legal right, as protected by the seperation of church and state, to beat his child, as it is said in the bible 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'"
"Yes, but it also says 'If your right hand offends you, cut it off' I don't see many people following that"

that can qualify as assualt

(in australia, someone making a threat to injure you is commiting a crime.)

imo: if the person i lived with was that messed up, I would try and get him/her/ to counciling.

i don't know much about mental ilnesses, but from someone elses comments, he seems to have some type of mental illness.

not meaning to be insulting but the signs are there, erratic and violent behavior, can get angry over nothing, confusion over his role in your life.

I think your uncle should be given profesional health.

either way, I would leave the house before reporting this as the cases of wistleblowers in australia has shown that people can be very angry at being reported for haveing done these things.

(it is easy to see why you can get so angry, you need somewhere to vent the frustrations of your life).

ok, that is seriously starting to seem like a serious bi-polar disorder.

the mood swings from violently angry to calm are one of the major symptoms. I have read a few things about it (time magazine once had an article about i) and if left untreated, can be very dangerous for both the person and the people around them.

you should realy leave if you haven't already.

sorry temp, i hadn't seen your post, however, saying he is a psycho could have some people on the site flaming you as bi-polar disorder can be controled by medication. so someone here could have it and you could have insulted them.

I am just trying to give you a heads up so you don't say something you might regret (especialy if you say it out in the open in public)

judging amy probably, because there are very few law and order episodes that would end with abuse being allowed to continue when it is prooven it exists and the only defence is that the bible says they can.

usualy, it is diplomatic immunity that allowes someone to use their religion as an excuse.

bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!

I concur.

Also your situation is really screwed up Yoshi. People who think that punishment is a end-all solution to all of life's difficulties are the most difficult to deal with. For some reason these people believe that violence is the solution that corrects any problem, and these are the ones who will cause the most trouble for people like you.

Maybe he'll trip down and fall face first on a pitchfork one day.

Speaking as someone with bipolar and family members who also suffer, I'd just like to say.....what Avenger said.

I'm gonna back up Jeff here and say that, being bipolar myself, you, alpha, are most worthy of being laughed at.

Whoever set your title is awesome on a level not seen on these forums, however.

You really are a lovable tin-can

Yeah, he's gone until friday or saturday (he leaves during the week to go out of town to work) so I'm okay for now. We'll see what the weekend brings.

That may or may not be bipolar (bipolar is usually manifested as going between happiness and depression, not nice and violent). Either way, it shows signs of a serious mental illness on your uncle's part. I suspect it may be an addiction of some sort (probably alchohol). The fact that he gives you a generous allowance, in opposition of what is legally assault (generally, in the USA, threats of violence consitute assualt, though some southern states like Alabama may still allow threats as a non-crime), suggests that the magnitude of his problem is severe. Everyone has mood shifts to positions that are opposite of each other; it's just considered a mental disorder when they are this strong. I don't think that we, as Massassians, will leave you alone until you try to get some help. Talk to SOMEBODY authorised. At the very least, your favorite teacher.