STOP SNIFFING!! !

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I seriously swear I am about to lose my nutts at the rude indian and asian people at the university library who keep sniffing!! I have already asked them nicely to go and blow their noses, and they just wont... argh... I cant conserntrate n this assignments due today... i feel like going to the bathrooms n grabbing a whole pile of hand towls and plonking them on the desk for everyone!! !

earphones n music arent helping either...

Some advice please?

That's odd. I've never noticed this before but I can imagine people doing it. Maybe you should just do as you said and put tissues on the table for them, haha. It might look rude but so is not blowing your nose that's gross especially if they are doing it to purposely offend you.

I don't know in my personal experience if I have a cold or stuffy/runny nose I can blow it numerous times and still end up sniffing cause it builds up again...unfortunately blowing ones nose is not a cure for that per say. Can you go to another part of the University Library? Do you have to study at the Library? And why specifying indian and asian people? I am sure there are plenty of other etnicities of people who might sniff in the library if they have a stuffy nose.

But yeah I'd say given the situation you may have to find an alternate spot to study....I myself never liked studying in the library when I was going to college, way to chaotic in there and usually people already were sitting in all the comfortable spots....Do they have private rooms/study rooms you can go in to study in the library where you wouldn't be disturbed? they had that at one of the colleges I went to

Get over it?

yeah i noticed they did it more after i asked them to stop.... argh people are soo rude..

Maybe they have a cold. Or sinus. Or allergies. Maybe blowing their nose doesn't help. If it's only Indian and Asian people maybe it's a cultural thing. I've heard in Asia blowing the nose in public is considered rude.
Maybe you will have to learn to live with it. Hyperfocusing on your own work can help screen it out. I know it seems impossible now when you're so stressed out and agitated, but with practice it becomes easier.

I sniff my nose, it hurts to blow so it's easier to sniff back and swallow my snot. I can't stand feeling snot in my nose so call me lazy if you like because I can't bear to have it dripping from my nose because I don't have a kleenex and I refuse to blow it on my shirt or because it gets painful to keep blowing blowing blowing. Colds suck, getting a runny nose in cold weather sucks.

To be entirely honest if someone came up and told me to 'stop sniffing' and I had a stuffy nose....there is a chance I'd start being annoying about it or I'd just be angry for people telling me to stop doing something I have to do unless I want to hold my breath. Especially if I am minding my own business....it would be like if I am smoking a cigarette waiting for a bus and someone comes up stands next to me and starts complaining about cigarette smoke when there is plenty of room for them to stand somewhere else rather than right next to me in the smoke.

To the OP, it would probably be worse if they keep blowing their noses in order to not sniff like you expect, nose blowing tends to be louder and more sudden, much more distracting than sniffy breathing in my opinion.

They are responding in kind.

Could be worse. I had to put up with loud conversations in the computer labs when I was trying to work. A few people with colds would've been heaven compared to that.

I don't even bother going to computer labs. I could never get any work done while there.

Usually, libraries have a dedicated floor or two for absolute quiet studying, plus private study rooms. I usually just go there.

this is Australia, sniffing is considered rude....
Sometimes I just cant block things out as much as i would like to especially when the assignment i am doing is of no interest to me ta ll but it has to be done..

after they left i had to put up with just that... n still am... I feel your pain... argh, im not usually one to complain i just have no patience left n must vent...

Considered rude by who? I mean I don't live in austrailia but it would seem odd that something required for breathing at times would be 'rude' sometimes people have to sniff.......if you have autism you probably have sensory issues making the sniffing more of an issue for you than anyone else...only real option if they are there first and its bothering you is to go somewhere else. I mean if I go to the grocery store and get overwhelmed by noise and light I have to leave the store I cannot tell the store to dim the lights and make everyone be more quiet.

Vent away; it sucks when you can't concentrate and you need to get stuff done. What are you studying?

That would drive me 'nutts' too!

I remember in school, about grade 7 or 8, there was a kid whose desk was one row over right beside me; one day we were taking a test and he just kept sniffing & sniffing & sniffing, he obviously had a runny nose, seemed like every 7 seconds he'd sniff loud, and I kept looking over & glaring at him hoping he'd take the hint and blow his damn nose, it was driving me to distraction! I wanted to tell him that there was a lovely box of Kleenex on the teacher's desk, put there for everyone to use, and to go make use of it, but as it was a test (and you know how there's rules of absolute no talking during tests!) I was afraid I'd be the one to get in trouble for talking. Even though I couldn't concentrate because of him

What I remember I couldn't fathom at the time was how it seemed nobody else in that room looked like they were being disturbed or distracted by this