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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, your brother is an abusive asshole.  Yes, it is unfair.

What you are overlooking is that you should be grateful that when you are hitting bottom, your dad is there to offer you a free room to come home to. Yes, it's small.  Yes, your brother monopolizes a good useable space and isn't even there 70% of the time.  But you should be grateful that you had a free room to come home and not make things more difficult for your father.  Your father already has a very hard situation dealing with an abusive, and abusing son who is a walking talking (actually screaming, it seems) time bomb.  Do not make things harder by picking fights with your brother.  That only makes things more difficult for you and your father.  You aren't going to reason with him.  What he needs is professional help.

I say you lay low, go to places like the library, Panera, Starbucks, etc to study and stay out of the way especially on weekends.  Alternatively, if you can study during the day, you can use the rest of the house (living room, kitchen) to study while your dad is at work.  You have only 2 months to do this before you move away.  After that, you will be free again.

I agree that you should talk to your father during the week when you brother is at school and make sure that he has some sort of backup plans if your brother becomes too violent.  And that may include having to vacate the premises and call the police to handle brother and friends, but do NOT make things worse for either yourself or your father.  [/quote]

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