Two things though both were well earned:

my mother lied for years about my mental health. Isolated me from family and friends, hid my homework so that I couldn’t do it, gave my number to a jackass who thought feeling up my leg was a respectful way to show his interest in me, and allowed the same jerk to repeatedly rape me.

I got out of her home and my first move was to report her to COAST (crisis outreach and support team) citing her delusion that she could force to fall in love with whom ever she chooses for me. It became a sealed deal with COAST when she attacked a cop in broad day light after an act of vandalism (she broke the glass of a bus shelter). When the cop asked her if she saw what happened she smeared her blood onto his face, and kicked him. She was arrested, released on bail (she knew not to call me for bail money) she then had a bench warrant out when she failed to appear in court. What sparked all of this? Me finding myself enough to no longer be her puppet. How dare I not conform to her perfect plan. My greatest revenge however was watching her dig herself into a deep hole.

second: a maternal cousin let me live with her while I was struggling due to a reduction of employment opportunities in my area. So what does she decide to do? She had one of her techy friends attack my computer, she then took my computer to the same friend and had him put a keylogger on it (I didn’t realize this until years later), she then used the key logger to hack into my bank account and steal my money, transferring it over to herself. She did this repeatedly until she believed that I had to go on disability. I had some stashed away that she couldn’t access and used it to move out. I found a landlord willing to accept 1 year advance rent from me and I set a limit for myself financially until I got a new job.

what else did I do? I reported my cousin for impersonation, theft, and disability fraud. She was kicked off the disability program and can never reapply. Anybody could’ve stopped it. Anybody could’ve told her ‘no’, nobody did except the government and now she really has to watch herself because now it’s on record that she is a frauder, and likely has engaged in other criminal activities.

If you don’t want to get burned, don’t play with fire.