Is it normal that i hide from my roommates?
People often say that the weirdest, most annoying roommate is the kind that seems to never leave the building. But what about the phantom roommate, the one that is seemingly never around? Well you see, that's me.
My freshman year of college, I was comfortable living with one person. We had our ups and our downs, but we were able to live amiably most of the time. However, come sophomore year, I was set to live with three other girls in an on campus apartment. Keep in mind that I was close friends with two of these girls our freshman year, but I started to dislike them after they formed an alliance at the end of that year.
I spent a lot of that following summer steaming over a nasty message they wrote together on my white board and even considered backing out of the housing agreement a few times. Glutton for punishment that I am, I vowed to myself to get through the next school year with them anyway.
Come September, however, I started spending most of my time away from the apartment. In fact, I would be away all day, even for lunch, and then after class I would grab the books I needed for studying that night. Then, I headed to dinner, after which I stayed at the library until 9 PM. Needless to say, my grades were pretty good that semester. Once it was over, I moved out of the apartment.
Fast forward to my senior year of college, during which I signed up to live in group housing again, this time with three juniors. Now, don't ask how I got wrapped up in that unusual scenario. That's a whole different can of worms. On to the hiding...
I hid from these roommates, too! I tried to stay out of the apartment as much as I could, even when I couldn't focus in the library. I would just stay in the library anyway, mainly so that I didn't have to interact with my roommates and risk the kinds of petty fights that arise due to overexposure to the same people. It got to the point at which I was literally afraid of my roommates because I rarely ever saw them. I was afraid of what they might have been thinking or saying about me since I was never there.
Am I really weird?