I don't know whether this is the correct subreddit for my ramble, but I can't think of anywhere more appropriate to go. Some of my questions go beyond writing, but my train of thought does stem from the craft.

Do any of you feel/fear that there's nothing to you outside of your writing? Do you ever feel like people fall in love/connect with your work without getting to know or accept you as a person?

I've never been noticed for anything but my writing. Almost no one cares about me unless I'm telling someone about the random bullshit I wrote/am writing. And I guess that's good. Except I'm not always writing. I don't always feel like writing. Sometimes I can't do anything more than work and collapse in front of the TV. And even when I do feel like writing and talk about it people are like "Wow, writing sounds hard. You're so smart!" But then they vanish unless I reach out (and even then they often don't write back).

Do you all feel like you don't get to be a person? Like you're just empty unless you pour the contents of your head onto the page and get published? It's probably just me, like always.