I've seen this approach before - typically someone who wants to be special, pronounces their specialness as unique and wonderful, demands their specialness be r

I've seen this approach before - typically someone who wants to be special, pronounces their specialness as unique and wonderful, demands their specialness be recognized, and then screams 'they're discriminating on me because of my specialness', when in fact they're being fired because in their exhaustive (and exhausting) efforts to promote their own specialness, they're not getting work done. They see the writing on the wall, and try to find some way to blame the world around them (discrimination, anti-Whateverism, etc). To be clear, discrimination exists in this world and it should be abhorred, but if the thing 90% of your coworkers think when they think of you is "Oh, that guy who's always talking about X?" instead of 'That guy who built Y' - you've let your personal identity overwhelm your work identity, and it's not a good career move.