[nabs-l] Blindness and roommates

[Ashley Bramlett]

Sami,

Sorry to hear this. You did what I'd do. You already reported this to your 
resident director. I think you should talk to them nicely. Tell them you 
need to sleep by a certain time; perhaps 11:00 for the next day and ask them 
if their guests could be a bit quieter.
Yes you'd need to talk to them and then meet with your resident assistant or 
the resident director. I had issues with my roomate  too although not as 
bad. Like your situation, she invited either her boyfriend or someone else 
late to  our room and they had the tv on. She also took over some of my side 
of the room. She was not at all respectful of my desires to sleep or do what 
I needed to do. Fortunately, she did not take my stuff even though I left 
for the weekend. I had a meeting with her and my RA which did nothing to 
solve the issues.

The next semester I switched rooms. My suggestion Ii s you talk to your 
roommates and then the director with them. If that fails to work, switch 
rooms next semester. You could also take a lot of your stuff home on 
weekends so they do not take it. You could put your valuable things in a 
locked place perhaps; I think you can buy containers or drawers that can 
lock up.

They may be taking advantage of you, but they may do this to anyone; you 
never know. Maybe they are just real rude people.
If they actually steal something and do not give it back, remember you can 
report that to the police; most schools have a police department. If they 
harrass you, that is also reportable.

Not sure what else to suggest. I hope something works out and keep us 
posted.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sami Osborne via NABS-L
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1:41 AM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Cc: Sami Osborne
Subject: [nabs-l] Blindness and roommates

Hi all,

As you probably know, I am currently a college freshman and
really enjoy it so far.  However, I have experienced major issues
with my two roommates throughout the course of the semester.  It
seems to me that both of them are not very organized with their
belongings, and that I am the most organized out of the three of
us.  The first incident that happened was back in September, when
one of my mates charged his laptop using my power strip while I
was home for the weekend, and I therefore didn't notice until
when I returned to campus on Monday morning.  Also, the same guy
took his lamp and put it on my desk rather than his own, and also
put one sock of his under my bed and the other one under his.
Also, both of them often times invite their friends into our rom,
and it can get pretty rowdy.  Most nights, they  stay up later
than me - usually until 1:30 or 2:00 AM.  While I personally
don't have a problem with this, it does irritate me that they are
staying up listening to music and watching TV while I'm trying to
get some rest for the next day.  It also seems as though they
take full advantage of the fact that I go home every weekend to
get into or even steal my personal posessions.  For example, they
took away my desk chair without any notice to me, and didn't
bring it back to my desk until the following Monday, and even so,
I had to ask them to give it back to me.  The last straw happened
just today, when I discovered that they had stolen my night table
next to my bed.  I have no idea why they did that, but that's
what they did.  Fortunately, they restored it, but I was really
shocked and angry that they did this.

So as you can see, I've had some rather major issues with my
roommates throughout the whole semester.  The things that they've
been doing are very disrespectful to me personally.  I reported
most of these concerns to the director of Residence Life just
this morning, but he just responded to just have a conversation
with my roommates, and that if it didn't work, we just have a
meeting with them as well as my RA to figure out what to do next.

It's also very unfortunate that, one of my accommodations was to
have a single room, but that request was never granted to me.
When I confronted the Residence Life director, he simply
responded that they did try to accommodate my request by only
putting me in a unit for four, because apparently all the other
units have up to seven people in them.  Although, as you can see,
that wasn't exactly what I asked for.

So I had a few questions for you guys: first, do you think that
my roommates have been taking advantage of my absence over the
weekend, as well as maybe my blindness, (like maybe thinking,
"Oh, he's blind, he won't notice") to use and/or steal my
belongings? Second, what kinds of things should I do to prevent
this from happening again in the future?

I  hope you can get back to me soon, because this is really a
serious matter for me.

Thanks and enjoy your week,

Sami

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