Need HELP - Disability Harassment from Neighbor
Hi all. I have been visibly physically disabled for several years now (drunk driver). While this was a very difficult journey, I've accepted the fact that I'm never going to get better and in a strange way now that I no longer have that expectation it's been a lot easier to be happy. I still have a lot to be grateful for.
Just my next-door neighbor is not one of those things.
My next-door neighbor who is not a dumb woman, in fact she has a pretty senior pretty high trust professional position, has developed this bizarre fixation with my incurable physical disability and her behavior is escalating.
A close friend of hers opened up a certain alternative medicine place (I'm deliberately being vague) about a year ago.
Shortly after that my neighbor began telling me that she just knew that this treatment would cure me.
She's also offered theories over the years that 5G, chemtrails, Barack Obama, etc are the cause of my disability.
I have to live next-door to this woman so my response to these conversations has been something along the lines of that's interesting, thank you for sharing that, I've got to run now nice seeing you.
Today she accosted my husband in our front yard and informed him that Jesus had appeared to her in a dream and told her that I was not following her medical directives (OK well perhaps her blond deity had a point there... 🤣).
She became extremely agitated and told my husband that I needed to get that medical treatment and that I was being irresponsible not to and missing my chance to be a good person God made me to be again. She gave my husband all of these medical detail details about me which are not accurate and which I have never shared with her. We just don't talk like that.
To me, this bitch crossed the line when she tried to triangulate my husband on her crazy bullshit.
I have already dealt with a lot of disability based harassment and defamation in this community and other people's reactions to it has put my safety in serious jeopardy.
This bitch is holding herself out as a medical authority and she's creating a narrative that is misrepresenting not only my medical situation but my actions, mental fitness & competency.
Of course people in the community are taking sides saying well you make everyone look at you on that thing (referring to my mobility aid) so it is everyone's business.
I've had it with this shit.
Has anyone ever dealt with anything like this and how do you shut it down because you have to teach people how to treat you.