I must be looking at it the wrong way round. I avoid talking to some people I know because it seems they vigilantly and consistantly only talk about themselves. Any attempt to talk about something else is cut off back to talking about them. And if it's not cut off, the topic-not-about-them seems uninterestedly half-heartedly tolerated and not contributed to until my disinterest with talking to my new found brick wall makes me turn the topic back to them.

Maybe it's just me being paranoid, unsocial, or selfish (wanting to talk about myself instead). Maybe I should take the advice of REM and say, "Should we talk about the weather? Should we talk about the government?" On second thought, maybe not.