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I feel really embarrassed.

In my uni class (very small class of around 6) there’s 1 girl that chews her chewing gum so loud, smacking her lips and popping bubbles and it absolutely goes through me.

I have asked her to stop a couple of times before in the past because it really bothers me but today was just unreal.

We were in the middle of a mock test and all I could hear was the smacking of the chewing gum and the wet mouth sounds, the tutor asked her to stop and some of the others mentioned it too so she stopped for around 5 minuets then continued again. The tutor even put music on the drown it out for me. I ended up walking out the class saying I can’t listen to it any longer and needed a minute. My heart was racing, I had tears in my eyes and my palms were really sweaty.

I don’t like being vulnerable around people, especially strangers. I am good at controlling my emotions but I couldn’t today. I left the class still feeling really overwhelmed and emotional, it took me a while to calm down. I now feel really embarrassed, like I’ve overreacted in front of everyone but it literally felt like torture. Especially because I have asked her to stop multiple times and told her how much it affected me. I’m absolutely fine with everything else but I cannot cope with the gum. She also did not apologise when I came back in and continued chewing how she wanted, luckily the class was a little louder by then so I could drown it out.

I’m really anxious about returning to class next week. Im not someone who will sit and accept shit behaviour towards me but this really got to me and I didn’t know how to react. I feel it’s deliberate, inconsiderate and rude. Im paying a lot for my education to become a nurse and i genuinely will not be able to concentrate or continue the class if nothing is to be done. I’m kinda pissed at my tutor too for not asking her to spit it out.

I also feel like if multiple people asked me to stop something and I could see how much it affected someone especially physically I would stop, but she does not.

What can I do?

I feel really embarrassed.

In my uni class (very small class of around 6) there’s 1 girl that chews her chewing gum so loud, smacking her lips and popping bubbles and it absolutely goes through me.

I have asked her to stop a couple of times before in the past because it really bothers me but today was just unreal.

We were in the middle of a mock test and all I could hear was the smacking of the chewing gum and the wet mouth sounds, the tutor asked her to stop and some of the others mentioned it too so she stopped for around 5 minuets then continued again. The tutor even put music on the drown it out for me. I ended up walking out the class saying I can’t listen to it any longer and needed a minute. My heart was racing, I had tears in my eyes and my palms were really sweaty.

I don’t like being vulnerable around people, especially strangers. I am good at controlling my emotions but I couldn’t today. I left the class still feeling really overwhelmed and emotional, it took me a while to calm down. I now feel really embarrassed, like I’ve overreacted in front of everyone but it literally felt like torture. Especially because I have asked her to stop multiple times and told her how much it affected me. I’m absolutely fine with everything else but I cannot cope with the gum. She also did not apologise when I came back in and continued chewing how she wanted, luckily the class was a little louder by then so I could drown it out.

I’m really anxious about returning to class next week. Im not someone who will sit and accept shit behaviour towards me but this really got to me and I didn’t know how to react. I feel it’s deliberate, inconsiderate and rude. Im paying a lot for my education to become a nurse and i genuinely will not be able to concentrate or continue the class if nothing is to be done. I’m kinda pissed at my tutor too for not asking her to spit it out.

I also feel like if multiple people asked me to stop something and I could see how much it affected someone especially physically I would stop, but she does not.

What can I do?

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