To the people retweeting my editing services, thank you. It's been a rough year of healing from a 5.5 year long breakup, followed by a physically and emotionally abusive relationship prolonged by mandatory quarantine, now resulting in living with my emotionally toxic grandmother.
I have no way to "get out". I didn't get a graduation OR CARES Act funds from #UNCCH / #UNC. I got too much help from scholarships to qualify in NC for Medicaid or any type of help.
I am severely disabled right now with #fibromyalgia #pots and #pcos but I am trying to keep up. My grandmother disrespects my disabilities and crushes my self esteem. She's negative AND toxic for my depression and anxiety. She called me unlovable in front of my SO on my bday.
I have no help from my biological family minus my grandmother. She uses this over my head, knowing full and well that I am too immunocompromised to go get a job to be free financially.
Everyone gives my grandma a break because she is 87 and they can't imagine the things she says to hurt me behind closed doors. She broke my toe when she fell and refused to use her life alert and made me pick her up when I am not supposed to pick up more than 5 lbs.
I was crying my eyes out because I kept telling her I couldn't do it and she kept yelling at me. She doesn't care if I hurt as long as she gets what she wants (falling scenario I understand, but she wants to expose herself to COVID because she wants to die).
She keeps telling me she wants to die so that I will always feel guilty for her death because I refuse to let her drive a car when she totaled our last one. She has crushed vertebrae and can barely walk. She refuses to get home help from Medicare. She uses me. I'm disabled.
My stalker will have a field day with this thread but I don't care because all of it is true. My worsened mental health has led to me quitting any form of exercise, staying in bed all day to hide from my own grandma, and enduring verbal tirades.
Nobody else in my family stayed because she is that unhealthy to be around mentally. I lost access to therapy so I'm on my own. I am suffering big time. I can't move out and protect myself. She is very, very cruel toward me and my friends have witnessed it.
She would counter that I am cruel because I try to establish boundaries, refuse to let her drive when she can't see past the dashboard and went reverse at a stoplight and totaled the Camry, and refuse to drop her at Publix because she refuses to wear a mask properly.
She shows no care for my own immunocompromised system and that's what is scariest. She's invited people in our apartment without masks on, endangering me and her, because she refuses to learn technology to keep her less lonely.
Living here is causing me major mental distress, but I can't find a job since I'm disabled and I can't find a place because I don't have a job. That's why I need help. I don't know if I can live here much longer without having a true mental breakdown.
I do my grandma's shopping so she doesn't have to but she gets mad about that because she wants to go "out" and acts like the times are normal. She won't respect when I can't drive certain days when I'm in pain. She just says she has it worse and how dare I stop her.
Every time I cave and she has nothing to "complain" about, she finds something else. She has keys to the car. She can take it any time yet refuses to, placing the blame on me for not buying a broken Camry for 4900 dollars
I found a nice Honda with lower mileage and a good safety rating and mpg. She hates it because it's not a Camry but we literally could not afford a Camry even in the 193k miles range. She was so ungrateful that I even found something and so mad at me when she wrecked our Camry
I moved heaven and earth to get this car which is why I have been protective of it because she's demonstrating diminished motor function. She totaled our car going in reverse at a stoplight. We can't afford another mistake like that and yet she insists it wasn't her
The amount of passive aggressive verbal abuse she feels entitled to dish out because I have to live here is awful. I try to pay her to get her to stop and she won't take my limited money. I beg her to stop using it over my head and she won't. I'm at my breaking point.
She tried to get me to sell the house she owns that she gave to my mom and get me involved in an eviction (almost). She kicked me out for a night when I established a boundary my therapist told me to set. I am way too young to get involved with that and it isn't my problem.
It would've meant I would be the abused proxy between my own abusive mother and my grandmother. I refused. She got furious at me and said I was ungrateful for everything when I was trying to protect MYSELF from that ugly situation that wasn't mine to fix.
She's broken me a lot since I moved back in after leaving the guy who hit me. I can't leave the US and live with my German friend, I can't find a job to be fully cut off from my grandma. I'm stuck to endless insults on my self esteem. I can't function.
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