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If I seem to be trying to turn a conversation around into "look! look! me! me!", it's probably just that I am trying to say "I think I have had a similar experience" and thus, by extension, "I hope you will respect me and/or take me seriously". In other words, it's not specifically that I want attention (although that's good), but that I want you to say "yes, I accept you as similar to myself", and in more extreme cases, to follow this with "and therefore worthy of basic courtesy", which I don't otherwise feel worthy of.