I know I am about to offend people, when I say this, but hang in there until I finish. I would first make sure the problem is in fact you being egocentric, and not the fact that you may be surrounded by "cat people". By cat people, I do not mean people who own cats, because you see, people who own dogs may also happen to be "cat people". Cat people is a slang term I use to describe people who drone on, and on, about tediously uninteresting subjects. These topics are in abundance and range from, silly things their cats do (obviously), their relatives or friends, which of whom, you do not know, a lengthy one-sided discussion, and play-by-play of their recent day at work, which typically is something equally boring, (e.g., librarian,) or worse yet, you may be subjected to sit through an inappropriate articulation of their financial difficulties, or intimate relationship information in graphic detail. It's really hard to tell if it's egocentricity in this case, because a colony of creepy, dull, cat people can function perfectly, and even co-exist with the outside world. (Even though they make normal people uncomfortable, this particular species of socially awkward individualism can indeed thrive alone amongst the rest of us.) Though typically, the cat people tend to want to stay together in large drones, like wild buffalo, to protect their, creepy, creepy kind.

Hope this helps, at least make you smile -Pterra