I’m currently part of a study abroad program where I’m living with a roommate with a host family. And, if I’m understanding my host mom right, my roommate literally complained about my part of the room being messy, not to me, but to her behind my back, because I let it get out of hand while I’m laid up in bed with laryngitis and sinusitis that’s hitting me twice as hard because of my chronic illness and multiple autoimmune diseases.
Like, I have maybe 10 minutes of energy per day. Sorry, I’m using that to feed myself instead of for cleaning.
Because my host mom came in today, basically cleaned it for me and then had a talk with me about keeping it this way and respecting other people when we’re sharing a room with them.
I barely have the energy to sit up half the time! Yes, I’m leaving my nightstand cluttered and yes, I’m dropping notebooks and my purse just on my bed instead of off to the side, but not an inch of my clutter has left the confines of my nightstand, my bed, and the foot of my bed.
If I wasn’t sick, I’d get it. If she’d said something to me, I’d get it. But complaining to someone else that I’m too messy when I’m sick and then that person guilting me for being disrespectful to others’ space when I’ve barely gotten out of bed for two days? It feels like overstepping.