Getting Help and Justice -- don't know what to do

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I'm a 58-year-old woman with asperger's, tourettes, adhd, ptsd, other letters and some physical issues as well.

I am alone, isolated and have had a tough time of it.

I keep getting in situations where I get treated badly, and can't seem to get help in stopping it, or protecting myself.

Right now I'm being evicted because I had the audacity to ask for reasonable accommodations in my apartment. They ignored me, I said if they didn't address the disability issues I would have to talk to a lawyer, and my answer was notice to vacate.

I just got my section 8 this past december after a 10 year wait, and now it is in jeopardy.

Section 8 is letting the landlord do this with absolutely no grounds.

I have a little over a month to find a place. I have one possibility, but that means uprooting completely to an area I don't know, with nobody I know there, and have to do it in a month. Add to that I just got out of the hospital with some physical issues so I'm in pain and can hardly walk right now.

And nobody seems to even care that both the landlord and section 8 are acting illegally.

And the fact i'm autistic seems to go unheeded. If I get upset, I'm alienating people because i'm too intense.

How about afraid?

the Fair Housing council has agreed it's a case of discrimination, intimidation, retaliatory eviction and misconduct by section 8.

I'm still being forced to accept just being uprooted. Worry about it later.

but then they give excuses for how I am acting rather than defending me, so it looks like I'm to blame.

the fair housing people will help me file a complaint to HUD.

That will take time. And let's see, add that to the moving and uprooting as well, along with the issues I have here at the apartment I'm at now that is making it impossible for me to hardly function.

I would love to find a lawyer of my own, but can't get anyone to listen. If I could find them. I'm so overwhelmed right now, I'm probably not even approaching them right or communicating right.

But helping me get a lawyer or helping me fight this isn't the priority.

The priority with my so-called support is to just get me somewhere else, and out of their way.

Wanting some justice seems to be dismissed, and I'm pretty much given the message that I should be grateful I'm not out of the street.

That has been the case my whole life and I'm tired of it.

Any advice?