Help my family and I move out of our home.

Hi, I'm Jennifer. I really need help to move out with my family. I am an Autistic Teenager and my family suffers from a lot of mental illnesses. We are currently not in the best situation.. our mentally unstable neighbour has threatened us, harassed us, over our private property, which is a singular pathway.

This all started on the 29th of September last year, the day before my 17th birthday. I was home alone as my family, dad, mom and younger sister, had gone out to go to a large flea market a few hours away. I was playing video games after walking both my dogs when I heard a car pull up to the drive way. I thought it was my family that had come home earlier than I expected, so I stayed seated in my chair and waited. Then, my dogs started barking and I hear a loud and rough male voice call out if anyone was home. I panicked. I was completely frozen in my chair, I didn't know what to do. The front door was open, my dogs were outside barking at this stranger. I didn't know this stranger's intent, so when the dogs eventually got too scared and came back inside after the stranger had cursed out my dogs, I locked them in my room and hid under the window as I saw the shadow of the stranger approaching towards the window. At this point, I knew he had looked inside the window to see my computer was turned on, he knew someone was home. Thankfully, I eventually managed to hide inside of the bathroom where I called my parents to let them know what was going on.

The rest of that day I was horrified, hyperventilating as so many thoughts ran through my head. When my parents came home, I decided to go out to take a breather.. which didn't help much. I was hyperventilating for nearly two and a half hours, I was trembling terribly and I could barely even walk. Eventually my mom had called me and told me to come back home, that she would meet me halfway there. I was filled with relief when I saw my mom, but the creeping sense of dread never left. My mom had to support me on the way home as at that point walking seemed impossible.

Fast forward much later in the day. The neighbour came back as my parents wanted to have a talk with him. The conversation thankfully didn't escalate and I was able to talk to the neighbour. I didn't say anything as I was still reasonably shaken but he did say that he wouldn't harm anyone in our home and that he was sorry for scaring me. But that's much different now.

Nowadays, he has expressed clearly that he does not care about how his actions make us feel, he does not care about the animals or the children living in this house. He is causing our animals massive amounts of distress by showing up at out front door and yelling at us. Not to mention, my dad just got through a depressive state and he has heart problems, he is incredibly stressed and can barely keep himself together. The neighbour has even threatened to poison our dogs. Another thing that doesn't really affect anything, is that he likes to be called ''The neighbour from hell'' and signs paper with the devil's number. We've tried everything to reason with him, to accommodate, but he just won't stop. A few days ago, he came back 2 hours later after a conflict with an unleashed, reactive German Shepherd. the dog tried to get to our smaller dogs, but thankfully the German Shepherd didn't know how to jump a waist-high fence so no one got hurt.

I just can't live here anymore, the amount of stress I'm getting from this situation is really affecting my mental health and my sleep, I feel like I can barely function and I struggle to meet my basic needs. I wish I could help support my family but I don't have a job.

The funds will help my family and I have extra money just in case we cannot sell our house at full price to buy a new house. I know I'm asking for a lot.. but even if we don't reach the goal, I will be forever grateful for any donation, big or small.