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I am so angry. My mum's cousin has "special needs" from when she was starved of oxygen at birth, but she's always just seemed a bit awkward and more like she just has a speech impediment and looks a bit different rather than having any learning difficulties or anything like that. She's always been able to get away with a lot and I've never really liked her, although I've never spent much time with her - I'm 17 and she's about 50.

My nan is celebrating her 82nd birthday today and although she's still so young at heart, her body's not too good, she's got heart failure and so many other problems and she's weak. Her sister (my great auntie) has Alzheimer's and doesn't have long left, and her husband who I absolutely adored, died when I was five. I'm worried about her lots because she's the last one of her sisters left and I worry about her and I love her to bits, she's the most amazing nan and I don't like my dad's side of the family at all, they hate my family and we have no contact with them.

My mum's cousin has been living alone for the first time while my great auntie is in the nursing home where she will basically die she's been offered so much help from other family members and outside agencies, and has accepted it for a while but then completely rejected it when they say the smallest thing she doesn't like or have the audacity to suggest she learns how to handle money better. She gets benefits, but wastes them all - rather than accepting the help she's been given with learning to cook, she spends it all on huge meals from takeaways every day, drinks nothing but diet coke, goes out and gets her hair done constantly, constant bus journeys to see this mysterious boyfriend she claims she has, when there have been constant contrasting stories of who he is and where he lives, and that he keeps giving her gifts and paying for things. She has now taken to borrowing - and sometimes stealing - money from my nan, who isn't badly off but as if that makes it any more acceptable. My nan hates saying no, especially when my mum's cousin has always been so spoilt and dependent on getting money from other people, so she gets conned time and time again into giving money which, rather than my mum's cousin going to the shops and buying easy microwave meals or stuff to make sandwiches that will last her for days, she wastes it on perfume and jewellery and McDonalds every day.

She's now refused all help from people but is more than happy to keep stealing from my nan, and she keeps guilt-tripping her by saying she's been to visit her mum in the home and that her mum keeps asking where my nan is and saying how disappointed she is that my nan didn't visit that day. My nan visits as often as she can but relies on the bus because she can't drive, we live over a hundred miles away and my other family members are either ignorant and can't be bothered unless it benefits them in some way, or have work commitments and can't get there. My great auntie doesn't recognize or remember anyone, so these stories my mum's cousin keeps saying are complete bull, designed to guilt trip my nan.

It's my nan's 82nd birthday today so as you can imagine she's quite frail and worries easily, especially about my mum's cousin, who's always been seen as "special" because of her learning difficulties - which has basically been described to me as being quite emotionally stunted, and symptoms similar to incredibly mild Down's syndrome - so anything she does can automatically be excused. Last night, she got a text off my mum's cousin saying "Bye Aunty _____ (don't want to post my nan's name sorry), I'm going to commit suicide because I have no money". Of course, she panicked and stayed up all night, texting my mum's cousin about possible solutions, including asking my auntie if my auntie will buy the bureau promised to her in my great auntie's Will, rather than inheriting it. She didn't get any reply, but today my mum's cousin turned up and didn't even apologize or acknowledge the text until she asked my nan how she slept, and my nan said she didn't because of the text, and then she just said "oh" and carried on with what she was doing. Apparently she gets benefits every three weeks - which my mum doesn't believe because benefits are paid every two weeks or every week, aren't they?

Anyway, as she was leaving, my nan walked her to the bus stop - bear in mind she has arthritis and cannot walk very well at all, and the bus stop is a fair walk away - and she turned around and asked my nan, "So you're going to lend me money, right?".

I'm sorry for the really long rant, I'm just absolutely fuming at how this evil cow can play mind games with my nan, who's incredibly vulnerable and really is too nice to even consider saying no - although I believe she's coming to the end of her tether. I hate how she can do all these things and yet never get reprimanded, and blame it on her "illnesses" and get away with it. Not every person with special needs is a controlling, evil, greedy b****, so she can't blame it on that, I honestly believe she is just by nature one of the worst people you will ever come across. I wish we could pick and choose our family like we can our friends

As I said, sorry about this long rant. TL;DR - Mum's cousin is a nasty cow and one of the only people on earth whom I feel we would be better off if she was dead. I just need somewhere to vent this all out because I am fuming.

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