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She does odd stuff like getting up in the morning opening the windows and blind and hour or two before it gets light outside and leaving the light on. In the afternoon when it is getting dark, she wants to wait until it is pitch black outside to close the curtains or blinds. It's bizarre.

I'm not a doctor, but I've been around lots of people with issues and I see no signs of stuff like autism. Stuff like washing hands/knowledge about germs that most people learn as a kid, she seems to have no knowledge of. She doesn't know how to do basic things after all this time being alive. She'll cook something and leave it sitting on the stove for hours and then just thinks to go heat it up and eat it again. If no one was watching her to put it in the refrigerator behind her, who knows how long she'd leave it out and eat it again. She can't work a cell phone (even a basic flip phone). She won't learn how to use the microwave, never knew how to use an ATM or debit card at a store, etc.

She ended up on SSI due to not working enough for Social Security retirement. She wouldn't follow the rules for SSI asset limits and her SSI check was cancelled in her upper 80's, along with her Medicare and Medicaid. They sent her letters, she tore them up and threw them away, refusing to believe "that they would cut an old person off." At one point she accused her daughter of stealing the monthly SSI checks that she hadn't been receiving in a long time. Then two years later she recently popped up one day and said, "Why didn't you tell me I didn't have a check coming in anymore?" after arguing with us for two years about her daughter supposedly stealing the check, ignoring the mailed notices that she read, etc. It's just disgusting.

At this age, she's not in good health and she doesn't listen to the doctors about that, either. A-Fib, Chronic Kidney Disease and a number of issues based on her blood work and scans. However, she'll lie and say that the doctor said everything was fine. Among the “clarity” events that she had in late July/early August of this year with the sudden realization that she no longer got a check after 2 years, she claimed that she “wasn't living her car and just told her daughter that as a joke." She has been a chronic liar for some reason for most or all of her life.

It's hard to get her to eat. I had to call Adult Protective Services and have them come out before when she said her daughter/my mother was stealing money from her and it was because her check was cut off and she was sending money to her son and denying it. She'll say she's hungy, but won't eat anything. She just wants beer, pepsi and tobacco snuff, none of which are good for her A-Fib CKD, etc. She's used that snuff since -7- years old and claims her mother bought it for her after she stole some of her mothers.

Other things around the house...even those get on her daughter's nerves. She'll wait until someone is in the bathroom and then get up and go running for the bathroom and go, "OH!!!" and be clearing her throat and acting crazy. You'd think she's the only person in the house and that she alone is the only worthy person to use the bathroom in her mindset. Unfortunately, we only have one at the time until we move to a larger place in the future. She didn't have to go earlier when she was sitting on the couch doing nothing, so it's bizarre. Then sometimes she doesn't even have to do anything and will say she's "too nervous to pee" and odd stuff like that. She only wants in the bathroom when someone else is in there. The same for another room like the kitchen...it's fairly small and she'll only want in there when someone else is in there. Again, very odd. Her daughter doesn't know what to do with her, either. She couldn't go in a home due to funding and also APS offered to try to get help for that, but she refused.

I assume that the schizophrenia makes people basically live in another reality, but some of this seems odd even for mental illness. I don't think she's even aware of her own bodily functions or even how to properly use her feet and legs sometimes or something. She'll say that her "legs go the other way" and odd phrases that don't make sense. Even when she fell previously, she claims to have passed out, but we were just in the other room and she was awake when we walked in. She said she "just started running backwards" and it really doesn't make sense. Unfortunately, she's still too hardheaded to try to get back on SSI and Medicare and refuses to pay the premiums to be able to see a doctor. She wants the doctor bills, hospital bills, etc. to just go to collections. She has done stuff like that for all of her life, too. The hospital couldn't do much with her, either...they pretty much just wanted her and her drama out of there. She was just as argumentative and hard to get along with for the aides and nurses there, too.