[silveroriole]

Think it’s more likely that it’s normal and healthy for social animals to seek each other in times of stress. This casting of social survival behaviour (including seeking attention, which social animals need from each other their whole lives to feel happy and secure) as “manipulative” and “immature” “bullshit” seems very odd to me. Sounds like a coping mechanism for your expressions of emotion having, as you say, no effect on people around you. No one cares. So you play all the roles yourself - you comfort yourself, you be your own support network. That doesn’t sound like a normal or good situation though.