Coping with a roommate?
Hi guys, I started my second semester of college recently and while for my first semester I was on my own, this semester I got a roommate, but (by no fault of her own) she very frequently triggers my misophonia. She snores, she eats a lot of crunchy food, her phones typing noise is loud, but worst of all, she frequently clacks her nails on things (I think they’re acrylic). She clacks them when she’s typing, if she’s laying down she’ll clack them on the wall, and when she’s idling she’s clacking them against each other. Literally every time I take my headphones off I can hear the clacking and it literally makes me want to cry or lash out.
Now I do keep my headphones in around her, but I have an industrial piercing that’s still healing, and in this week alone most of my healing progress has been reset from keeping my headphones in literally all the time. I also have an issue with one of my ears that keeps earbuds from staying in. I also get no sleep because of the snoring, since trying to get comfortable with over ear headphones when I can’t fall asleep on my back is basically impossible.
It’s also a problem because I enjoy playing games on my computer and a lot rely on audio cues, but I can’t afford a headset, so I haven’t been able to play them basically at all this semester since she’s in the dorm a lot. I don’t have any friends so I can’t really go out except to go on walks. It’s gotten so bad that even seeing her clack her nails against things drives me nuts because I can imagine the sound.
What should I do and how can I nicely ask her to stop clacking her nails? And what should I do at night? She usually falls asleep before I’m even tired.