I don't want or need her to care about me. For me, it's an issue of respect, which I believe people are entitled to regardless of what the relationship is. I feel like she disrespected the work I do because it's not a typical 9-5 office job like hers, and I feel like she disrespected me as a person by ignoring my disability and limitations. I really don't even care that much about cleaning--it's the way she approached the whole thing that really got under my skin.

Even with people you don't know and have no relationship with, you can still be polite. I would never mock someone's job or imply that their time wasn't important if they didn't have a job, whether that's due to disability or any other cause. I don't need her to be my friend or even to help me with anything, beyond paying her half of the rent and bills. I just need her to treat me with the same respect we should all treat each other with simply because we're all human beings.