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[zuki_san]

Hm. I post something (admittedly, something I do that rather infrequently.). Then I wait a few days. And noone comments. Then I feel miffed. Or sad, or something. Then I feel bad about that, because it makes me feel like an attention whore. Just a bit.

...I don't really like that phrase. It's quite ugly. But then again, I think that's the point. And then, of course, my brain goes "the fact that you think about things like this meants you probably aren't one. So chilll. You're thinking too much, man."

What's your definition of Attention Whore?

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_quinn/]

[Giggles softly at Zuki.]

I'd been out of the Wired since Thursday, Miss Claws-on-Keyboard. :)

Wanting people to respond -- if for no other reason than to know that they're reading -- isn't being an attention whore. You'd need to be going out of your way to grab attention, like titling your previous dream entry "Hot Girl-on-Girl Action."

Unless it was "Hot Dragon-on-Girl Action," but I think Adult Swim already grabbed the option on that animation... ;)

[starofhope.livejournal.com]

I don't think even titling your stuff things like 'Hot Girl-on-Girl Action' would qualify. That could just be being silly. I think the supreme form of LJ Attention Whoring is the 'pity me!' posts that I used to be such a master of...

[starweaver-blue.livejournal.com]

*poke*

You have to actually be doing something annoying to attract attention, or have a "poor me waah" thing going on over time about it (which this kind of introspection really isn't), to qualify as an attention whore, IMO.

I had feelings like that a lot in the past, and this was actually one of the reasons that I had a hard time using LJ and such. (I started with an independant Movable-Type blog and ended up being told at some point that no one was going to read it without being kicked if it wasn't on LJ).

In my case, I think I've found it to be spun off of unresonable feeling of isolation which is an effect of my (currently mostly inactive but untreated) depression-or-similar.

But then, I said, "In my case" and rambled; you can feel things like this without having any problems like that I'm sure. Accepting that you feel that way and refusing to linger thinking about it when it comes up (AKA a zennish approach) would probably be the first thing I tried.

. . .

Wow, I started this response just meaning to poke you, really. *hug*.

[starweaver-blue.livejournal.com]

Tweak: ". . . . first thing I tried [if the feelings bothered me too much.]"

[lugia222.livejournal.com]

When I think of the phrase "attention whore," I really think of someone that does everyone in one's power to attract every ounce of attention around them, and one who gets frustrated when one does not get the attention they desire, thus working even harder to attract attention.

My apologies for not being very vocal on your journal, dream analysis isn't really my specialty.

Oh, and in any case, it's great that you're posting (if intermittently). It reassures me that you aren't dead or something.

[starofhope.livejournal.com]

It is natural for people to want some level of attention. You look down on yourself too negatively for that.

I haven't been commenting lately because I've got a massive LJ backlog built up and I don't want to poke into it. >_< That, and I often don't know what to say for some of your dreams, which is what you post most often.

My definition of attention whore is a little nebulous, but it is certainly Not-Zuki.