Homeless mom and Autistic Son

Hi my name is Amity, I am the mom of a 21yr old Autistic Son. We have started a GoFundMe due to hard times. Fast forward from a nasty divorce, living back at home with a Narcissistic mom who is completely cut throat and doesn't respect boundaries, I decided instead of living in fear of "Oh no what did I do wrong today" I do my best to do my journey away from my mom. My parents had bought me a car I was paying back, since I decided to leave they told me to bring the car or they would report it stolen. With everything we owned my son and I put everything on the sidewalk and we waited for a Lyft, my step dad came to give my son his jacket and said, " you might want this, it gets cold under bridge's" my son who is autistic gave a look of confusion. We have been doing this journey since the middle of February. I work full time and try like heck to keep us fed, sheltered and safe. This is probably the hardest thing I have ever endured. I use the money I make to get us rooms and we use Lyft or Uber. I thought I was doing really good last weekend and found someone who was willing to sell me an older vehicle and I could make payments. I have him my last $300 and knew I wouldn't get a paycheck again for another week. Leaving with the car it started pouring raining and so I pulled into a parking lot not 2 minutes from where I picked up the car turn the car off and my son and I just sat and waited for it to stop. Once the rain quit I went to go turn the car on and it was completely dead so I called the person I got the car from to see if they could come and tell me why I wouldn't start. Once they showed and checked the battery they acted like I had done something wrong to it and that I had drained the battery but I know there was no way that I could have drained a battery within 10 minutes of getting a car, then they proceed to look to see why the check engine light had come on which I had asked about and they come with a reader to look at the codes and while he's down there he goes ahead and clears the code which to me tells me that this engine light has been on but you've just been clearing it so that it wasn't noticeable whenever I came to get it. I was still excited about having a car so I wasn't really thinking but once we got to our room for the night and I had time to sit down and think I realize that this wasn't a good idea that I've already been suffering and struggling enough that I can't buy a car that has car issues. So I wrote a message to him and just kindly told him how I felt and that I felt it was going to be a struggle for me to buy it and that I was going to be out more money because he had told me to take it and make sure it was something that I wanted to continue paying on but once I let him know that I didn't want to keep the car he became a different person. We went to go take the car back and he said he had spent some of the money that I had given him but he would give me $220 when I got there I said that was fine but when I got there he only had $180 and then got upset because there wasn't much gas in it which one I picked it up there was only 10 miles left until it was empty so I just returned it with what was in it. Knowing we had nowhere to go and we had all of our stuff in the car and he was upset he took us to a McDonald's we had to get all of our stuff out of the trunk by ourselves and he drove away and then sent a message to me telling me that he wasn't going to return any of the rest of my money to me so here I am today with my son and a friend's car nowhere to go absolutely no money no food no gas money sitting in a parking lot having to sleep trying to figure out how I'm going to get money to get to work on Monday so I don't lose my job I don't have family that will help me my sister's helped me a couple of times my parents haven't reached out to me at all to make sure that we're okay my real dad hasn't reached out to me to make sure I'm okay and it's been really tough having to do it on my own and I thought I could do it on my own but I feel like I can never get ahead and I don't know where else to ask I'm waiting on approval from social security for my son for his disability which will help with him a lot but as of now we're in need of help and I'm asking anybody if they have anything they can donate a dollar I will be greatly appreciated and I will give it forward whenever I can get on my feet. I've helped a lot of people in my time and I would give the shirt off my back for anybody that needed help enemy or not that's just who I am. So I'm just asking if anybody could help a little bit just to help us make it until my paycheck on Thursday my son and I would greatly appreciate it. God bless and I hope your journeys are way better than what I'm going through and I know at the end there will be a rainbow but for now it's hard to see through to the Future. Thank you from Amity and Braydyn