Poll: Is this attention whoring, or just being unique?

[Brawndo]

To all the questions about his personality and such, I don't really know him. He has been in a few of my classes in the past year and I see him in the halls, but that's about it. What I do know is that he drives a powder blue Mazda Miata and blasts atrocious Europop while peeling out of the law school parking garage.

My guess is he woke up one day and thought, hey I have a mr. fantastic costume lying around, lets wear it to law school just for kicks, but then he realized that after that everyone expected him to continue wearing costumes and now he is trapped in a nightmarish realm where he has to constantly come up with newer and zany-er costumes otherwise everyone will start looking at him funny wondering why he isn't being ``himself´´ anyomore,and what started as a cute little joke has evolved into a horrible entity that has consumed his entire life and now he is there before you, a broken and empty man.

Or he just does it for fun I don't know

Or it could be like that French film Le Moustache where the guy shaves his 'tache off and no one seems to notice and he starts to go crazy. Good film.

Thanks for making me aware of that film. I just watched the trailer and that's exactly my kind of movie. brb ordering it

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

If the man brings some laughter in people´s lives...i think he´s fucking awesome.

 

[The AtticWarrior]

Dude....there's a time and a place for cosplay, school ain't either.

 

[WestMountain]

Nor unique or attentionwhore, is it only me that would think it was a retard if I saw him on the street?

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

I equate this to people who wear cat ears in public, and not something subtle like a hairband. Being in the art department of my college, you see a lot of these kind of people. My definition of an attention whore is someone trying to hard to be "unique".

 

[ChocoFace]

yeah, this is just kind of awkward for everyone involved.

 

[MasterChief892039]

Honestly, I would put money on him having a mental disability. Especially if he doesn't seem to notice people looking at him.

You're probably making fun of a kid with autism or something.

 

[C117]

Meh. In my school, there are at least 50 goths, a guy who's always dressed in green and a girl who dress like a swedish peasant circa 1800. So I don't think he'd stand out that much

 

[Brawndo]

Honestly, I would put money on him having a mental disability. Especially if he doesn't seem to notice people looking at him.

You're probably making fun of a kid with autism or something.

That would be the highest functioning autistic person I've ever seen. Also, after creeping his Facebook and seeing photos of his girlfriend, apparently he bagged the one hot chick that has an irresistible fetish for autism

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

How about both?

I strangely enough have to agree with this. On one hand, he's just being himself in terms of being outspoken, silly, and weird. On the other hand, trying to be outspoken and weird (especially in terms of dressing up to a law school function as Mr. Fantastic) is kind of attention whoring in a way. There are times when you just have to suit up and realize it's a serious affair

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

If he is not retarted or really stupid, then he is attention whore for sure.

 

[Nemesis729]

Id guess attention whore but who knows, Ive never met the guy

 

[joebthegreat]

I'm never going to be a fan of the crowd that likes to call people out for "attention whoring"

Ever since high school, when we had a talk about suicide and the signs to look for to save your friends life. Some ass hole decided he'd be the cool guy. He said:

"If they say they want to kill themselves, they're obviously doing it for the attention! You should just ignore them!"

And the response the instructor gave, and the one that rings in my head whenever anybody uses the "attention whore" god awful excuse is this:

"If you would rather let somebody die than even give them a little attention, then I feel sorry for you"

So somebody wants attention. Is that enough of a reason to hate them? How do you feel when you're ignored?

 

[Ice Car]

Just some attention whore. I'd find it hard to ignore someone like that though...

 

[Magnalian]

Attention Whore, no doubt about it. There's "defying conventional norms of apparel" and then there's this.