This entire school year, I have been forced to be roommates with a guy that I've found to be an anal-retentive and whiny little brat. While I respect that we may have different sensibilities and lifestyles, he certainly can't. In fact, every conversation that he's initiated with me is a complaint about something relatively minor. In order to appease him, I had to constantly keep the window open in the coldest months of the year because "he likes it that way" and use less toilet paper than I need to after doing my business, among other things.
According to mutual friends, he has severe OCD. However, I don't find that to be an excuse to complain about everything. Some of my best friends, past and present, also have it, and they are by no means annoyingly self-centered in the way this guy is. Despite this, I seem to be the only person at school who dislikes him. Does anyone, with or without OCD, feel that my roommate's tendencies are a characteristic symptom of the condition, or is he just a brat?
According to mutual friends, he has severe OCD. However, I don't find that to be an excuse to complain about everything. Some of my best friends, past and present, also have it, and they are by no means annoyingly self-centered in the way this guy is. Despite this, I seem to be the only person at school who dislikes him. Does anyone, with or without OCD, feel that my roommate's tendencies are a characteristic symptom of the condition, or is he just a brat?