AIO? My aunt is my landlord and slid this under my door

Hi this is on my spare account because I do not want to doxx myself and my main account posts on my city subreddit and my disabilities are rare. I am going to give some context because I think some of this is confusing without it. I am disabled with multiple disabilities including Level Two Autism and Orthostatic Hypotension and other small ones like Irritable Bowel. I am on SSI which gives you only $980 per month and rent for most one bedrooms here starts at $1000 per month minimum so I am renting the basement in my aunt's duplex for a family discount. I don't do things like take the trash cans to the curb because when I do physical activity my heart does not respond correctly and jumps to over 200 beats per minute. My doctor said this was very unhealthy so I should avoid rigorous physical activity to not stress my body. I am only supposed to do sedentary and anaerobic activity such as weightlifting to work out, but not do things like running or stairs which are cardio, and the curb is down 3 flights of stairs because our house is on a big hill. Anyway when she says a care facility or home she means an institution where they put developmentally disabled people. I don't want to doxx myself so I do not want to say which institution she is talking about, but I have a friend that was in it temporarily and more friends who have siblings and friends who are in it, and I don't want to go. Their descriptions have been very upsetting, the staff is mean, people get forced to take medications to sedate them, people get wrestled by guards and put in isolation rooms and things, and you're not allowed to have your own phone or computer or make your own food or anything. That sounds really bad, I don't want to catastrophize but I'd be really upset in a place like that and it would make me not want to be alive if I was there forever. My first reaction is to tell my friends and see if I can stay with someone instead of living here. I can only pay a little under $500 a month if I want to keep getting my meds and necessities like toilet paper, but if I'm going to be getting fined $100 every time I follow my doctor's advice maybe it would be cheaper to share a friend's bedroom and chip in for their rent anyway? But I know my disabilities are really hard to deal with and my aunt is being very generous for letting me live here for unfairly cheap, so I thought maybe that's me overreacting and she's right about me being too disabled to live outside of an institution. Or that maybe I am being lazy and should probably pitch in more. To be fair I do eat a lot of microwave meals because it's hard for me to stand for a lot of time. My blood pools in my feet and I'm supposed to keep my feet raised at or above heart level for a lot of the day, so I dont cook much. But I could be working harder to cook and not eat so much lazy packaged food, my doctor never said how long I shouldn't stand for just that I should try to avoid it. Anyway thank you. l submitted by /u/Fickle_Photograph243 to r/AmIOverreacting |
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