For some context, I'm a 18 year old college student who has been wanting to moving out of my house for a majority of my life by now. My parents are both from Haiti and living in this house has caused a lot of stress due to their strict and sometimes unsupportive nature.

Growing up in this has cause me a lot of problems ever since I was 5, the constant verbal (and sometimes physical) arguments between my dad and older brother, and the constant stress on trying to get good grades just so my mom doesn't get mad at me as drained me out mentally, and it's been really bad for the last 3 years now.

The first ever time I thought about seriously moving out was when I was 14, I had gotten into a stupid argument with my dad, who has a drinking problem, and I tried telling him that I cared for him because he always just assumed that everyone hates him in the house. To which he told me that I was being overly aggressive with the way I was talking to him and was telling me to calm down despite him causing an outburst in the house, and then proceeded to keep on drinking upstairs in his room. This was the moment I realized just how bad my living situation was, and I didn't want to be part of it anymore. Come 2021 and my mental health took and nose dive since school had stressed me out, and I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, I somehow managed to pull through. But recently I was having a talk with my mom about my grades, and she thinks me having a 90 is bad since it's basically considered a b in her mind and only wants me to have 100, I asked why she undervalues my work, and even though she says she not, it's things like this that make me realized I can't make her completely happy unless I'm some type of super genius.

Thankfully though, I have a couple of close friends that were telling me about moving out of their place and moving in together, and they even said that they would love to have me come along. At first, I didn't think to much of it, but now I think it's for the best if I went through with it (with proper planning of course). I've recently got a job, and I'm currently learning how to drive so that I don't have to keep relying on others, and I'm hoping by summer next year we will hopefully find a place.

On one hand, I love my parents, but on the other, they have effected my mental health so much to where as I need to get away. Am I just being to naive here and should just continue to wait things out, or am I being mature in trying to leave my situation.

TL;DR - I'm planning on moving out of my parents house with a couple of friends next year, but I'm also afraid at how things will turn out due to their strict and toxic nature