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

[Brawndo]

There's a guy in my classes who dresses in costumes in public on a regular basis. For example my law school had a function this morning and this guy showed up dressed as Mr. Fantastic. I lol'd to myself when I saw the horrified look of the administrators. Most of my other classmates think he's weird as hell. I've also seen him working out at the campus gym sometimes and he's done things like wear his underwear on the outside of his pants and dress in neon colored parachute pants, tank tops, and headbands, looking straight out of an exercise video from the 1980s.

If you saw this guy out in public, would you think he is a filthy attention whore who probably derives deviant sexual pleasure from stares, or applaud him for being a unique eccentric, defying conventional norms of apparel and bringing a little comedy and light to our banal existence?

 

[Chrono212]

Takes one to know one so...it's just craving attention I'm afraid.

If it was uniqueness, they would take some pride in how they looked, not just try to draw attention.

 

[KiKiweaky]

He does seem to be screaming for attention but how bad he's not doing any harm.

 

[Amy Sorel]

How about both?

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Being a massive attention whore. It's neither particularly amusing or clever, and I doubt htere are any reasons for him doing other than just attention.

 

[gostlyfantom]

I am going to have to say attention whore but its forgivable because that guy must be fun to laugh at.

 

[^=ash=^]

I love the term Unique Eccentric Flower so I'm voting for that one.

 

[Lord Legion]

Seems all about attention. Appears to be nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to mask over an empty personality.

True individuality does not require fancy get-ups or "random wittiness". As for unique, far from it.

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, as bizarre as it might be, this sort of action is not unique, so it must be the other thing. He's an eccentric attention whore.

 

[GeorgW]

How about both?

This.
But it's probably leaning towards attention whore, he can't really be comfortable in all those costumes, can he?

 

[Ekit]

He sounds like an attention whore. But you didn't say anything about his personality. What is he like as a person?

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

This sound like a case of attention whoring to me. If it was being unique he would be out dressing that extensively.

 

[Super Six One]

Yea for the attention, I mean its sounds fairly awsome way of getting it but still.

 

[Brawndo]

If you can't act normally by the time you're in law school...perhaps you shouldn't be in law school. There's a time and a place for such things, and that ain't it.

"Normal" in law school typically equals "dry as fuck". Most of these people I go to school with are extremely boring and generic when they are not drunk (which is relatively often, at least)

You never said if he liked the attention or not or his reaction.
Since he is bold enough to do this stuff in the first place, id say hes brave despite whether hes an attention whore or not and i respect his devil may care attitude.

He plays it deadpan with no visible reactions. He even got up to the microphone and asked a 70+ year-old Yale-graduate lawyer a question about constitutional law at our function today.

 

[Regiment]

I wouldn't call him a "filthy attention whore who probably derives deviant sexual pleasure from stares", but if you have to ask he's probably an attention whore. There's a time and a place for costumes, and classes are neither.

 

[Amy Sorel]

How about both?

This.
But it's probably leaning towards attention whore, he can't really be comfortable in all those costumes, can he?

I guess... If he's dressing in goth or hippy cloaths it's one thing.... but spandex is... something different...

 

[Dags90]

Perhaps he's just a Bunny Ears Lawyer [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BunnyEarsLawyer] in the making? It could just be a personality quirk, maybe he just doesn't like wearing normal clothes.

 

[Legion]

A bit of both. Not that it matters really, he isn't harming anybody.