Firstly going to give a bit of a backstory before we moved in to the property we are in right now…
My pregnancy with my son was very traumatising I required tube feeding due to HG and now have an eating disorder called ARFID and there is no specialist in West Yorkshire for this eating disorder so has gone undiagnosed. We moved in in August 2020 and straight away my neighbour started what I believe is harassing me (I’m Autistic and socialising is hard for me) I was told by my upstairs neighbour to not talk to this neighbour as she is a massive gossip and I did that I avoided her at all costs and was nice if she saw us but.. I was underweight and she started calling me anorexic to other neighbours and constantly bringing up my weight to me and next time I saw her I tried to explain to her I wasn’t anorexic and I would of actually gotten help if I was but not long after that conversation I was sectioned to the gastro ward for tube feeding and I actually got semi diagnosed… like I said no specialist in my area but I had a 2 hour appointment with the eating disorder team and they said I wasn’t anorexic. My official diagnosis is eating disorder (unspecified) and I receive no help for it.
I was discharged in November 2020 and have had no issues with my weight since and not long after I was at the park with my son and met a lady there and she was so friendly so I tried to start a friendship with her and it was going so well until my neighbour went up to my new friend and told her she didn’t know how she could be friends with me because I’m “mental” and I was absolutely disgusted and confused I had never been nasty to her in any way and I asked her not to do that and said if she had any questions about my autism and how it affects me to just ask and she was like yeah ok…. But since then she has been on a mission to make people think I’m crazy by going through my bins and telling people what I throw out, calling me useless in front of my son, telling me there is something wrong with my son because he throws tantrums and screams (which is normal behaviour for toddlers)
she criticises everything I do including how I hang my washing I no longer take my son in the communal garden and I just take him to the park.
but most recently she has turned everyone against me because she has said I assault my husband and I’m apparently racist because I got mad at my upstairs neighbour for constantly waking my son up. My neighbour upstairs and the older neighbour have teamed up to harass me constantly and the neighbour upstairs has her entire family upstairs slamming doors and banging and yelling all night long so my son can no longer sleep in his room so he’s out of the routine I worked hard to get him into . My neighbour stamps on the ground continuously until I snap and yell and she records my reaction and shows people and says I’m the one in the wrong and see how crazy she is.
i complain weekly to the council but they don’t really seem to see how their behaviour affects our daily lives and our mental health and not to react but I’m exhausted honestly. My elderly neighbour puts food my cats aren’t allowed to eat outside and my cats end up sick because of it (I will include a picture of what she put outside my front door for my cats) today I asked her not to put food outside anymore because it makes my cats poorly my cat had to go to the vet recently with food poisoning and she said she’s not putting it out for my cats she putting it out for the birds and if I don’t like it I should pick it up and now my cats aren’t allowed outside.
also I’m not from England originally I’m from Australia so I have no family here just my husband and son.
long post but AIBU to react like I do ?