I (22 M) have this group of friends in College (3 Males and 2 Females) who which I been hanging out since almost three years ago. We share a lot of things on common, but even when we disagree, we always have the chance of discussing the topic listening to the others points of view.

But one of my friends (20 M) isn't the best in this kind of conversations. Let's say his name is David (it isn't). David it's a very clever guy, but usually very quiet in classes, even when he know he have the right answer. But when we are out of class, he normally just say how he should have speak up and answer our professors.

But here is the problem, David can't stop talking about himself, or he can't stop trying to make himself the center of the conversation we have. I don't really have a problem with this, I mean, we are friends, I should be hearing about what he thinks or feels. The issue here is that he can't do the same for us.

For example, a few days ago, one of our friends suffered an injure in his arm, he have a nasty bruise over his shoulder and couldn't move it. We all visit him separately to not overwhelming him, but when it was David's turn, he spend two hours talking about himself, about how many girls he was talking to, and other things. When David asked this friend why he wasn't moving that much, he remember him how his shoulder hurt. Yeah, in those two hours, David never ask how this friend was feeling, or anything like it. And then he keep talking about himself.

And this is one of the many examples, I could talk about every time we talk about things like politics or shit like that, he just put music in his airpods and don't talk to anyone at all. Or how we can't talk about music in front of him because he don't listen to "girl's music" (He only listen to Led Zeppelin, Guns and Roses and Seru Giran).

We tried to talk with David about this, and he does the same thing every time, he apologize saying he will stop doing it, he stop for like 3 days and then it's the same issue again and again.

I'm feeling tired, I can't talk with him about anything because he will turn the focus on him, or he will avoid me because he feel what I say is boring.

So, IATAH for avoid to start any kind of conversation with him? I still consider him my friend, and I want to be for him and all, but it's just too much. (Sorry for the English, my main language is Spanish so I do it the best I could)