I live at home and my brother routinely hits me, what do I do?

If he's leaving marks he's hitting you too hard. As you're both adults, you could report him to the police if you wanted to; less drastic action, talk to your parents. Just remember there's the chance he could start on your younger sister, and I'm sure you don't want that.

Ok granted its a girl but still its ridiculous

Lol Why are you calling me a bell-end?

You are obviously stupid too i don't care about spelling or punctuation because quite frankly it is a stupid way of judging someone's intelligence.Surely you should judge it on what people actually say.I was criticising the guys ability (or lack of ability) to understand what I am saying not his literacy skills btw

I called you a bell-end for insulting someone due to a disorder that they have.

"You seriously need to learn how to read"
I wasn't criticising your intelligence either. But I begin to wonder why.
If telling someone to learn how to read isn't a criticism of literacy, I have no idea what is. It is also hypocritical to criticise another's literacy when you type illiterately yourself. And also misinterpret what others have said.

"I don't care about spelling or punctuation because it's a bad judge of intelligence"
Therefore you shouldn't type correctly? Exams are a bad judge of someone's intelligence too, do you also not care about them?
The effort involved isn't exactly accompanied by a plethora of exhaustion, I mean how much energy does it take to press the space bar after a full stop?

But I wouldn't want you wasting your time with someone as thick as me. I'll give you the easy way out and make this my last reply. If you're unable to admit that you shouldn't be immediately dissolving into ad hominem attacks because you either: didn't express yourself correctly, or misread what someone said, then I think it's clear what the problem is here.

You need to remind him one thing.
Who run the world?

I called you a bell-end for insulting someone due to a disorder that they have.

"You seriously need to learn how to read"
I wasn't criticising your intelligence either. But I begin to wonder why.
If telling someone to learn how to read isn't a criticism of literacy, I have no idea what is. It is also hypocritical to criticise another's literacy when you type illiterately yourself. And also misinterpret what others have said.

"I don't care about spelling or punctuation because it's a bad judge of intelligence"
Therefore you shouldn't type correctly? Exams are a bad judge of someone's intelligence too, do you also not care about them?
The effort involved isn't exactly accompanied by a plethora of exhaustion, I mean how much energy does it take to press the space bar after a full stop?

But I wouldn't want you wasting your time with someone as thick as me. I'll give you the easy way out and make this my last reply. If you're unable to admit that you shouldn't be immediately dissolving into ad hominem attacks because you either: didn't express yourself correctly, or misread what someone said, then I think it's clear what the problem is here.

I was about to reply to your post, then I saw that perverse gif sig! It's brilliant!

Any hit is too hard whether it leaves a mark or not! But you're right.

Title says it all really.

My brother is quite small, but I am smaller still. Whenever my parents are not there, he will hit me (and sometimes when they are there). It is not THAT hard, but it stops me working and sometimes leaves bruises. Sometimes he hits me with tennis raquets/other hard objects.

This came up during my GCSE year and my school dealt with it very badly. I have since moved school for sixth form.

My parents honestly don't see anything wrong with it. They aren't about to change anything, so if this is going to change, it's up to me.

I am no longer legally a child, I just turned 18, but I really can't take it anymore. I am in my final year of school, I need to get into uni and meet my grades.

I have a little sister who is still legally a child, but he doesn't hit her.

What should I do?

You guys are completely useless and insensetive ********s. I would love to see how many of you could stand being in my position.

He is my older brother. He is three years older, he has a small build, but (being a girl) I have a smaller build. Hitting him back gets me a far worse beating, I have learned from past experience.

Clearly he's abusing you, if he really does hurt you, you might as well show your parents how serious you are about this by putting in a complaint with the police for assault.

^ This. If he is 21 then this has gone well beyond normal sibling fighting that you grow out of, this is domestic abuse and he is being a complete bully and you don't deserve to have to put up with it regardless of whether you are legally a child now or not. If you want then give him (and inform your parents you have done so , that way it would be highly unfair of them to react badly if you do have to report him) warning that if he touches you again (or ever touches your younger sister) then you will be reporting him to the police for GBH, if he does, go to the police as soon after as possible or call them on 999 then and there if you are able (lock yrself in the bathroom if you need to). If you have current bruises from him, take photos of them now and record a statement of when they were cause and how etc. That way if you do report a future incident to the police hopefully they will take it very seriously.

Reporting him to the police is not actually you being a bad sister, maybe it will lead him to get the anger management help he clearly needs or make him think twice before hitting a partner in the future which currently doesn't seem beyond him. I hope things get sorted for you and people take your situation seriously as it should be.