This is going to be long. TLDR at the bottom. I am a minor
So I live in Queensland. Since around the age of 5 I have been under the care of the Queensland government, in other words my legal guardian is a CSO (child safety officer) and not my parent. Until recently, I have lived in residential care, which is basically a non government company that receives money from the government and pays support workers to take care of children in rented houses paid for by the government. My mother recently proposed that I grab all my stuff and move to her place. Me, having been deprived of living with my mother for more than a decade, did so. I have been living with her for a couple weeks now. The past couple of days her attitude towards me and the way she treats me has started to become bad and becoming worse.
At 10 am yesterday she woke me up, shaking me, poking and prodding me, saying I have to go with her to an appointment. That appointment is for her, not me. Also, I am old enough to stay home without supervision and she herself has admitted this in the past and has done so several times. She has also entered my room in the middle of the night several times, some of which I've noticed because I stay up late SOMETIMES (keep in mind it's sometimes, not too often) others because stuff on my floor has been moved due to my door being opened. At 2 pm yesterday I was in my bed doing nothing in particular when she started touching me (not in a sexual way) it was like what it was when she woke me up at 10. I repeatedly told her to stop and swatted her hands away when she refused, not that hard. Anyway, I moved further onto my bed to get away from her and she gets on my bed and keeps doing it, trying to pin me so I can't move. At this point I realise she won't stop so I roll off the bed. She sits on the edge of my bed and keeps doing it. Still trying to pin me. At this point I curl into a ball and hope to god she stops. At some point she does, but then for some reason she grabs leaves from a plant and comes back into my room and lifts up my blanket to shove the leaves under it. At this point I'm so confused and still telling her to stop. She only does when she runs out of leaves. After that I message her saying I'm considering going back to residential care. She messages back and says that if I do, she will not let me take my tablet, PS5 and gaming laptop with me. She bought me my PS5 months ago, way before the idea of living with her ever came up. The tablet was not too long after the PS5 and the laptop was shortly after starting to live with her. And all were gifts and not in any way being lent to me. Her attidute became considerably worse after that message. She tried guilt tripping me by saying I made her leave her home- (A shitty motel that's overpriced as hell, she can barely afford and she was planning to leave soon anyway) -because I didn't like it. She also said I made her give up her oldest friend because I didn't like him. (He has insulted her on several occasions, both with and without me witnessing it. He has also stolen from both me and her. He also broke into the motel room when we were grabbing pizza and stole stuff. And he also tried breaking in in the middle of the night) She also calls me ungrateful.
Later, at some point, she enters my room and sees me lying underneath my blanket. My whole body, head and all. It's a relatively thin blanket (she knows this) and it's quite soft (which is why I do it) anyway, she freaks out a little and says that's not normal. Cut to several hours later (an hour ago) I'm under the blanket again (I was not under it the whole time) she freaks out. She says that's really not normal and that she is calling a mental health professional, and is heavily implying that I'm not mentally alright for staying under a blanket for 12 hours (I wasn't under it for that long. Barely 5 minutes before she entered my room) and at some point during this the amount of time I was under the blanket became 24 hours (in other words at first she said it was 12 and then she says 24) A couple minutes later she comes back in my room and says that doing this is a sign im really depressed and want to kill myself. (I am NOT suicidal or depressed) And refuses to let me close my door. She has also been complaining about my sleep schedule lately (it's only been a bit bad because we moved houses but was only able to do so at 9 pm because we chose a shitty time of day to move and after moving all of our stuff it was midnight) I can't sleep with my door open. I just can't. I'm big on privacy and just can't stand the fact someone could be staring at me while I'm sleeping, even if it is my mother.
I am genuinely considering calling the residential care company I used to live with (they haven't kicked me out yet. My spot at the house is still open for me) and saying I want to go back, but I'm worried that if I do my mother won't let me take my laptop, PS5 and tablet. I'm a gamer and without these items I can't function. And I mean that because since gaming is my only joy I actually will become depressed. I have checked and legally I do own these items since they were a gift, but my mom might just take it to court and provide the receipts and say I was borrowing. Is there any way I can take my laptop, PS5 and tablet without having to worry about my mom taking them?
Too long don't read:
I've been under the care of the state via a child safety officer for over a decade. My mum has gifted me a PS5 and a tablet months ago. Recently she gave the idea that I go live with her, with is legal since I'm old enough for my decisions to actually matter, and she gifted me a gaming laptop while living with her. The last few days she has started treating me worse and worse and I'm considering going back to government care, but she has said she won't let me take my PS5, tablet and laptop with me. Is there a way I can take them with me without her being able to legally stop me?