Is it normal care home residents don't like me/each other??

I'm a care home resident in my early 30s. My parents are elderly so there's no hope of moving back with them.
It's good, as these types of places go –- prompt care, nice staff, kept clean – but the other people are the nastiest bunch of people I've ever met – petty, childish, complain all the time.

They moan when someone goes out, but they never do. I never know what mood they'll be in. I jump too much, I put my lipstick on too thickly, I don't look after myself, and I'm always miserable. I'm close to 1 resident, who I'll call “Hugh G. Reckshun” to protect his id.
Hugh happens to have a very bad temper, and he's turned on them for their comments to me before – were I to move homes I'd really miss him.

They'll leave it till they're rocking in their chairs, crying and squirming around, telling me they aren't allowed to ring (we have our call buttons on necklaces for easy reach) and they'll be told off if they do, then say staff are rude to them and/or won't help them. I've been in care homes where this does happen, sat in #1 & #2, etc., which is how I know this one is good.

The problem is, the bad homes where all that happened were full of kind, funny, creative old hippies who actually wanted to talk and, if you take away that the care was so awful it makes me cry to think of it, I quite enjoyed staying there!

What would you do?

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  • thegypsysailor

    Sorry, but I'd kill myself before I'd let anybody institutionalize me. Or kill the someone who tried.
    I have no desire to spend my last few years as a vegetable, sitting in a chair all day surrounded by folks I don't like.
    I'm sorry, I obviously know nothing of your circumstances, but from what you have written, it sounds like hell on earth.

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