AITA for telling my desk mate to stop playing with her ring?
I was recently seated next to this girl in class, she’s been generally pretty quiet which I don’t mind as I am too, but very fidgety. A few days ago, she was flinging around her ring on the desk with a pencil, not at anyone or anything, but it was making a horrible scratching noise.
I asked her to please stop after a while as it was distracting me from my work and getting on my nerves and she said okay and stopped. I thought that was the end of it. The next day she started fidgeting with her ring again. Instead of rolling it against the table, she was rolling it around with her fingers and messing with it. It wasn’t noisy anymore, but seeing the fidgeting out of the corner of my eye still annoyed and distracted me. I think she has ADHD, she always sits weird or messes with stuff, but this was irritating me more than usual.
I didn’t want to be disruptive in class so I didn’t say anything, but once we got out of class, I approached her and asked her to stop fidgeting and that we had this conversation yesterday. She seemed to get a bit upset and said she did stop and that rolling her ring around in her hands wasn’t bothersome and doesn’t affect anyone else. I told her that it was distracting and that she should just pay attention to the lesson and stop fidgeting around all together to think about the people around her. It turned into this whole disagreement over something that isn’t very hard to do.
AITA? I just find it very annoying.