I found out how to fix this problem. In firefox there's an area in the browser settings where you can change the ZOOM percentage of the browser page layouts. I had to reduce this to about 80 or 90% in order for the browser to stop cutting off page tops. That was then making it so I couldn't interact with either followers or household recruited NPCs.
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This is very important! I think other people are having this problem also but nobody was talking about how to fix it. This way will work to fix it.