More thoughts on the self-absorbed.

[randomness]

Self-absorbed people have a tendency to launch into conversation about themselves assuming you already know key points about themselves that they have never told you. This more often happens when they're seeing you again after some absence. It never occurs to them that you wouldn't know, because it's so important and obvious to them. This can make conversations with them confusing.

Sometimes, they get offended at you for not knowing things they haven't told you, because your not knowing them means you clearly didn't care enough to pay attention to things they didn't tell you. But this is a somewhat more extreme case.

(Thanks to cmeckhardt for helpful changes in wording.)

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I don't think this is necessarily a self-absorbed thing, so much as a limited world thing.

In a lot of ways I think the limited-world problem is an extension of the self-absorption problem. It's a bigger bubble--a group of people rather than a single one--but nonetheless it's a problem of living in a bubble.

I know I sometimes don't want to tell someone a story twice, so I will end up not telling them at all. Not exactly the same thing though, I guess.

I wouldn't think so.