Applying to college this year, and getting more worried. Not diagnosed, so I can't get a single dorm as an accommodation. The idea of living with another person, who could come into my room at any point and observe me doing whatever it is I'm doing, feels suffocating, like I will constantly be on edge at the idea of somebody just perceiving me. I have to be in 'people mode' all day during school hours, and I am imagining that I will never be able to turn it off if there is somebody living in the same bedroom as me. Also, I sleep a lot (9-ish hours a day, or I get headaches) and need quiet, and if I have a roommate, it would be much harder for there to be quiet since most people (who I know, at least) don't sleep that much.
If anybody has lived in a dorm before, is it as bad as I'm imagining? Or does it get easier, at least, even if it is difficult at first?
19 Aug 2025, 7:56 pm
