AIBU to find one-issue personalities rather tedious to be around?

Zero self-awareness. Zero social skills. No ability to read the room. Bore off.

Has anyone mentioned yoga?

Being from The North especially Liverpool (Because I am a Scouser and we always yadda yadda yadda)
Sexuality
Voted Remain and can’t let the Referendum go
Gender, especially non binary whatever it means
Football
Cars
Tech especially comparing Strava stats
Being a vegan
Being on a diet
Being gluten or dairy free
Sport
Women who can only talk about something through their husband’s lens (Peter / Mark / Richard would hate that…..)

People obsessed with what they eat - noone cares. Eg vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerant, pescatarian, gluten free etc Crack on- I fully support your choice to eat whatever you want, but I really dont wish to hear about it 50 times a day. I dont GAF what you eat, or dont eat and why or why not. I dont care.

Sexuality/gender identity/non binary etc- same as above. Be whoever you want to be, but for the love of God, dont make it your entire personality. It's tedious as hell. One of my best friends growing up was like this - constantly referencing the fact he was gay and shoehorning it into every sentence. We know. You've told us. We also live in Brighton, the gay capital of the UK. Noone cares.

I have a friend who worked in a bar 20 years ago. Despite having a reasonably successful professional career all she talks about is the sodding bar. I don’t know why she didn’t stay there as she clearly loved it a lot more than her successive jobs.

See I really miss some of the old fandoms. It was fun chatting to different people with a shared interest but who also had their own personalities. You could enjoy a deep dive into the fandom whilst not having to take yourself too seriously.

Now many are more dominated by people who make it their entire personality and if you criticise a character you'll get someone acting like you've just insulted their mother or something. Its sucked a lot of fun out of it for me.

The boomer almond mums and their obsession with dieting and weight loss. Oh my GOD I don’t care about how many calories were in the dinner you just made. I do not care that “my Janet” has just lost 5 stone “without any jabs” oh my godddd.

This is not just my mum. This is my mum, my MIL, their sisters and their friends.

All. They. Talk. About.

Yup and many do. Or they just choose not to tell you at all.

I have a lovely friend who used to be vocal on all sorts of subjects. However she has recently had a diagnosis of ADHD and now that is absolutely her entire personality.

Having had a late diagnosis of ADHD myself I can appreciate how this makes you rethink your life and past through its lens but, OMG, I can't wait for her to come out the other side and start talking about something else. So I can understand it, but it doesn't mean I like it.

Yep we have one of those.

Exaggerated health issues and exaggerated allergies and food intolerance. Aka mountains out of molehills.

She uses some genuine issues she has to manipulate and exert control over people around her.

Most recent example I heard was where she made a big song and dance about not eating an omelette a friend prepared because she doesn’t eat eggs but the same day went out for Belgian waffles with the same friend because by then she only eats eggs sometimes.

She couldn’t understand why the friend was not happy with her.

😂 we were a bit reminded...

To be fair I think some of it was probably nerves as it did ease off after a couple of days but it seemed such an odd way to present yourself - he has a really interesting job but he made his sexuality relevant to that too...I did feel I was being "educated" for want of a better word.

My son’s personality is Minecraft.

Why did you let it go on so long?!

There's autism in my family and we've had to teach not to monologue at people.

I used to know a woman whose husband was a salesman in a Ferrari dealership and she would never shut up about him selling Ferraris. He was still just a bloody car dealer.

I'm not really one of the pack anymore to be fair. Probably why I can now see/ admit it.

Wow, it’s not often one of that pack admits to taking it too far. 👏

I actually used to be like this when I was into feminist groups, the ones that are not in favour of men saying they are women.

It got to the point it was all I could talk about and friends would say 'can we talk about something else?'. Cringe looking back. I did get a bit obsessed. I've moved on from that particular interest now.

Been there and done that thanks, and didn't need to tell everyone at every opportunity.

Likewise when I was a teen I didn't start every sentence with 'I'm adolescent so...". It's kind of a given if you're a certain age, surely.

Queensland state and local government agricultural water allocation mismanagement allegations. The man is obsessed.

The worst was the woman in Nando's, who went on about being "peri-peri"...

Been there and out the other side. Some women seem to make it their entire personality though, and it gets boring.

Well, one day you’ll all be perimenopausal, if you’re female. Let’s see you not mention it then 😊

PS: you don’t need to read those threads it’s not compulsory.

You sound unkind.

This is the best one yet. You and your colleagues could hold a little competition to try and find a topic she can't bring round to canals.

Dating etiquette?
AI?
The poetry of Emily Dickinson?

There are umpteen threads on mumsnet that start with "I'm peri". It's getting tedious.