Cousin stealing from me, and getting away with it.

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Just got off the phone with the police, who promptly told me to stop wasting their time with such "trivial matters" that "they can do nothing about".

Well, I guess having faith in the police is a mistake everybody makes at least once. They told me the same thing once when I was 15 and was brutally beaten by some drunk folk on the side of the road when I was walking to one of my uncle's houses. I had their car and license plate number, and they still chose to do nothing. I suppose the police would rather go out and write speeding tickets to hard working citizens and put non-violent marijuana offenders in prison than to actually do something productive to society.

So, it looks like my cousin is officially off the hook, and will learn nothing from this experience, since there is no way I can confront him about this at all, and nobody is giving me his father's phone number (which is unlisted) because they are convinced that my cousin is "innocent" because they believe this situation is "all in my head", so I can't talk to his father about it.

I suppose if I were an NT with no mental problems whatsoever, my family would take this matter more seriously. At least my younger sister is on my side for this one - but she can't do much because she lives a few states away from the rest of the family.

Ah, well. Getting worked up about this any further would be futile. Perhaps I should sever ties with the vast majority of my family altogether. Not answer the phone whenever one of them calls, send them cards during holidays to let them know I am alive and well, etc. I don't need to be dealing with these stigmas in my own family, and they have proven again and again that they will not be there for me when the time comes for emotional support or moral guidance. With family like this, I probably am better off alone. I used to have some hope that the ties would eventually strengthen, but now I have pretty much given up all hope on that.

One other thing you can try, set up a hidden camera and see if you catch your cousin on it taking anything. If you do you got the little SOB.

That sucks dude. And yes, I agree. People who give you no respect deserve none of yours in return. Family included.

You won't be able to prove anything unless you set a trap. (ie: mark a game CD or something - unobtrusively). Then check it.

I probably won't be able to prove anything to my family no matter what in this case, so at this point, I am past the point of caring about that.

The best thing I could do in this case would be to sever ties with the family members who insisted that my cousin's theft was "all an invention in my head". And to never let my cousin walk into my apartment ever again. Of course, nobody will learn anything from this, and they'll all just assume that I'm being unfair to them. Let them assume that. If they can't get past the fact that people with mental illnesses often do have valid opinions and emotions, and are capable of thinking with lucidity if the illness is under control, then they have no place in my life.