Emancipation for an Early Graduate in Florida

I'm with Dog on this one. The thread sounds like how do I buy OTC drugs while being under 18. The rest looks like window dressing.

And why all the different examples of buying drugs at different stores and pharmacies? People usually buy at one store or pharmacy. Mom could just go to the pharmacy and give them a letter stating that it is OK for the pick-up of meds.

I'm not buying it.

All of the other issues addressed by OP are easily resolved. Has OP heard of overnight mail for contract issues or a phone call to or from mom for emergencies?

Well, OP doesn't have the required medical knowledge to discuss it, really - and in her defense she doesn't need to talk to us about it.

What I WILL say though is she has said certain things which are simply either completely false or are examples of misinformation.

I am however starting to understand whats going on here. And the problem is not with the pharmacy..directly, at least. To spell it out, it's OP herself. Someone, somewhere, has decided that for whatever reason that she has a major problem with compliance. When you have a long-term patient and they have a long medication record there is rarely a need to restrict the patient unless there is a flag waving proudly.

*cough*

As to the OTC stuff; apparently 18 yo bf is or will be going to the same school so bf can purchase all the OTC stuff op needs.

op is making a lot of excuses for problems that aren't really problems

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You our make some odd statements about your sister. While she is related to you due to having only one parent in common I am sure she is both 100% a person and 100% your sister so your concern that she is only 1/2 a person is both untrue and irrelevant.

if she is a 60 minute drive from you she is surely less than 100 miles from you so your statement you have no family within 100 miles is obviously incorrect.
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I'm not saying my sister is 1/2 a person, I;m just saying that since she doesn't have the same father that I do, she's my HALF-sister. Not half a person, so there you are incorrect. Also, it depends of which school I attend. If I go to FSU, she's close. If I do not and I go 3 hours away from FSU to UCF then she will not be close at all.

Also, I have tried to find other avenues:
A notarized consent form my mother to allow me to apply for housing, get required things for life, pay bills, etc. Like a blanket release. This, however, nobody has answered me on. Not sure if it'll work or if it won't.

Not all college campuses make students live on campus as a freshman for a variety of reasons. At FL state universities, there are 40k+ kids and only about 5k dorms, so they cannot possibly force all freshman to reside on campus because there is simply not enough room. Dorms at campuses are expensive and it would just be economically easier to just have an apt than a dorm. A dorm at my school of choice is about $5k a semester, a apt would only be around $4500 because around the campus, students get discounted housing just for being students. I'm sure that's not everywhere, but at these particular schools, it is.

Colleges and Universities are used to students in your situation and have dealt with them many times. I'd suggest contacting someone in the admission department of the school you're interested in and asking them your questions.

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fsugirl44;812367]I'm not saying my sister is 1/2 a person, I;m just saying that since she doesn't have the same father that I do, she's my HALF-sister. Not half a person, so there you are incorrect.

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either she is your sister or she isn't. Are you suggesting that an adopted child would have no siblings in the adopted family no matter how many biological children the couple may have?

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Also, I have tried to find other avenues:
A notarized consent form my mother to allow me to apply for housing, get required things for life, pay bills, etc. Like a blanket release. This, however, nobody has answered me on. Not sure if it'll work or if it won't.

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To pay bills, you write a check and send it to whomever is billing you, your mother, or anybody else. They don't care who pays the bill as long as somebody pays the bill.

and since you said your housing was already paid for, the only issue left is damages you may cause. Your mother can co-sign for you. Ask the school how to accomplish that monumental task. It's not like this is the first time they have ever had to deal with this sort of thing.

get "thing" required for life? Like what; food? You go to the store.

and no, a blanket release won't do anything for you since your mother is not releasing you from anything or anybody else.


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Dorms at campuses are expensive and it would just be economically easier to just have an apt than a dorm.

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really? Even after you wrote this in the first post?

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I also see that the top college of my choice does not let people under 18 sign for a dorm (my dorm was prepaid through FL Pre-Paid per my father's will when he died)

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A dorm at my school of choice is about $5k a semester, a apt would only be around $4500 because around the campus, students get discounted housing just for being students. I'm sure that's not everywhere, but at these particular schools, it is.

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so it would cost you $0000000 to have a dorm but $4500 to have an apartment. I'm not seeing your point.

@budwad and @dogmatique For the first, and the last time. The pharmacies around my house are expensive and I'm not someone who can flaunt around money, I try to find the best deals I can because my meds are not generics. I'm not trying to get drugs. I'm going off to college and under FL law, they can restrict the dispensing of any sort of OTC or prescription medications from minors whenever they please, the pharmacists could have a problem dispensing to minors because their kid has issues, the pharmacist could have had an influx of robberies, the list goes on an on, and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it because I'm not 18. It has nothing to do with me or my medical history, which I don't feel like I should have to explain to a stranger on an internet board. I'm not a druggie, I'm a 4.0 kid that's never even stole candy from a store, not someone that gets into all the stuff. Don't jump to conclusions you cannot back up. Anyways, obviously you didn't read the entire thread because I'm concerned with other things like trying to find housing, paying bills. etc. when my parents are 500 miles away.
Overnight mail isn't ALWAYS overnight. I've learned that one too many times. Not only that, it's like $25.00 to send something, that's more than I'm willing to pay for faulty postal service. My mom also has a job and cannot pick up the phone every time I hurt myself, in a minor injury respect. If I get the flu (a minor sickness), the health clinic can't treat me because I legally cannot consent to my own medical treatment. The only thing I'm entitled to medically is OB/GYN appointments and that's about it. Unless I'm dying, they really can't do much because unless my insurance and my parents sign off, there's nothing they can do.

Look, you are not the first speshul snowflake the college will have dealt with. Call and ask admissions your questions. I'm willing to bet they have all sorts of advice and answers to all your questions without worrying about emancipation.

Age of Majority in Alabama is 19. Are you going to tell me all those Freshmen/Sophomores attending many of Alabama's fine universities and colleges manage to do what needs to be done by being emancipated? (Answer: They are not emancipated. What needs to get done is done.) :wallbang:

Okay, what you don't seem to understand is that, even though my dorm is paid for, that doesn't mean they HAVE to give me housing per their rules. I'm at their discretion, regardless of what anyone wants it's up to them. At that point, my mom can ask for the money back from the dorm deposit because she's in charge of the account. Even of they made an acception (which they probably won't due to competition for housing on state universities) my dorm is only paid for for one year, if I start in the summer and end in the following summer, I'd still be under 18 because of my late birthday making things extremely difficult.
Your "food" comment was unnecessarily sarcastic and rude, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it. What I meant was things like credit cards since cash is hard to deal with and I get my paychecks in check form, so I have to put it in a back acct, which I cannot get on my own until 18. Also, god forbid something were to happen legally, I couldn't prosecute without my mom. If I got robbed, assaulted, jumped, anything, my mom would have to be involved since I'm a "dependent minor". She could have to be taken away from her home while whatever comes of the proceedings while if I were to be able to do this on my own, she wouldn't be inconvenienced and I could take over what happened to me while I was away, not what happened to me but now has to happen to her, its simple, be responsible for your own actions and reactions, however, I cannot do that by myself, and I cannot put the responsibility off on my working mother.

And what you don't seem to understand is that noting you have posted suggests that you qualify for emancipation.