Is it normal for my dad to act like this?
So, I was wondering whether my dad's behavior is normal.
My father goes to work- he works second shift at a local food-processing plant as a machine technician. Most of the time he's sleeping... But the rest of the time, he sits around on the television or eats and yells at my brother, mom and I about how the house isn't clean enough for him and how us 'freeloaders' never do anything around the house. He doesn't value anybody's possessions but his own unless he wants what you have. And if he does, then he will go into your room or wherever and take it. If you try and say that he shouldn't be allowed to do that and to give it back, he'll go onto a tangent about how if we don't like it, we can get the fuck out of his house. He's been threatening to throw my brother out at least twice a day lately and has done the same for me. He will scream at us and every other word out of his mouth is a cuss (same as my mom) and yet, HEAVEN FORBID if I even utter a 'naughty' word. Most of the time, he stays verbal with his treatment of me. But once, I woke him up for his job wrong- I turned the lights on in his face. He yelled at me to 'Turn the lights off!' (I've censored that to make this a bit more appropriate.) Not thinking much of it, I shrugged, turned the lights off and then went out to the living room to read. He got out of bed and went to the bathroom as per his usual. I heard footsteps coming into the living room and suddenly, there were hands around my throat. He had my neck pinned to the back of the chair with his hands, nearly choking me. He then got up inches from my face and started screaming at me for daring to wake him up like that. I started crying and nodded at whatever he said so I could breathe again... It hasn't happened since then, but I'm terrified to upset him again because I'm afraid of that happening. Is it normal for my dad to act like this?