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I'm done with my grandmother's manipulation and abuse, I'm ready to fucking pack up my stuff and just leave and never look back, even if I still have a couple of months left on the lease and no idea of where to go that's safe.
"You are a dreamcatcher, you are beautiful to look at and you take the bad away and only give people the good." - Andrea Blankenship
Given what you've mentioned previously about your grandmother, those feelings make total sense. If you're genuinely thinking about leaving, we may be able to help you connect to some resources to help you do that as safely as possible (it's also totally okay if this was more of a venting post, but I wanted you to know that was option).
Okay, it looks like this may be the best resource in your county to contact to get a sense of what your options are (finding this is really the extent of what we can do in terms of your housing concerns, since that's an area outside our wheelhouse): http://ohs.cuyahogacounty.us/
In terms of other things to consider, you may want to look at The Scarleteen Safety Plan , specifically the sections that cover how to get out of an unsafe home.