Do you consider yourself self obsessed?

[Ocarina]

Do you consider yourself self obsessed or have others accused you of being so?

 

[ksheehan88]

Sometimes I guess I can be. I imagine most people can be sometimes.

 

[xudo]

I wouldn't have said so, but then I would imagine pretty much everyone would say that. Nobody has ever accused me of being self obsessed.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

People have accused me of being addicted (they love to throw that word around). Being called obsessive is honestly a step down from that.

 

[Jennacide]

Yes im self obsessed, but i dont mean to be :/

 

[Judge]

Only perhaps over the pursuit of my own autism. Beyond that...uh....no. I keep to myself, so it's not like there's anyone to debate such a point in real life.

 

[Datura]

I certainly can be, but am trying not to be as my own thoughts regarding myself are rather destructive.
I prefer to obsess over other things, like cephalopods, evolution, or retro game emulation.

 

[toothless]

i am ego centric,meaning my mind is based around my own thoughts and wants/needs so forth,but that is less because of being egotistical and more because i have quite severe classic autism and live in my own world most the time.
ever since i started retaining memories as a toddler,i grew up mostly unaware of other people,they were part of the background,and they are all generic lumps of flesh to me-i do not get impulses to go and interact with them i interact with my own world,so of course i am going to be ego centric,but i do not think i am better or deserve more than other people.

because of the way i have experienced life,i have to base my views on my own experiences and go from there otherwise i wouldnt understand,so it can look a bit ego-ey,but its just how my autism makes my brain work around other people.

 

[Ocarina]

I certainly can be, but am trying not to be as my own thoughts regarding myself are rather destructive.
I prefer to obsess over other things, like cephalopods, evolution, or retro game emulation.

I also find it really easy to get caught up in thought patterns and lost in my own head - it's not productive or pleasant - the cephalopods sound like a much better option Datura.

 

[Ocarina]

i am ego centric,meaning my mind is based around my own thoughts and wants/needs so forth,but that is less because of being egotistical and more because i have quite severe classic autism and live in my own world most the time.
ever since i started retaining memories as a toddler,i grew up mostly unaware of other people,they were part of the background,and they are all generic lumps of flesh to me-i do not get impulses to go and interact with them i interact with my own world,so of course i am going to be ego centric,but i do not think i am better or deserve more than other people.

because of the way i have experienced life,i have to base my views on my own experiences and go from there otherwise i wouldnt understand,so it can look a bit ego-ey,but its just how my autism makes my brain work around other people.

Thanks Toothless that is such a brilliant explanation of why some of those of us on the spectrum are accused of being self obsessed when in reality it's a simply lack of ability or desire to interact with other people. It's very hard for anyone to actually see and understand this in someone else, that there's a difference between narcissistic self centred behaviour and involuntary focus on oneself.

Really interesting.

 

[Full Steam]

I've been called self centred but not in a bad way, which is probably accurate.

I'm not egotistical in that I don't care more about my own pleasure that other people, but I think I am a bit wrapped up in my own experience.

I'm a mystery to myself a lot of the time, and i do like a good mystery.

 

[Ocarina]

I've been called self centred but not in a bad way, which is probably accurate.

I'm not egotistical in that I don't care more about my own pleasure that other people, but I think I am a bit wrapped up in my own experience.

I'm a mystery to myself a lot of the time, and i do like a good mystery.

I can relate to that - being self centred as opposed to other centric is not really a negative, just a different way of being.

 

[Jimbo]

I used to always be concerned about how I appeared to others. Now at age 47 I have learned that it doesn't matter as much as I thought. I quit worrying about it. I have to say that I was obsessed with image at one time and tried to be like other people, now I just be myself.