I want a word to describe someone that doesn't ask for something. However, they drop hints they want it.
For example: a kid keeps saying "it's too high up I can't reach it"
Instead of asking for help
Or
Saying you were sick last week and don't want to get sick again so your friend closes the window instead of asking for him/her to close it
Best Answer
You might describe such a person as 'Playing the Victim'. The phrase can cover a range of behaviours, but includes this kind of 'poor, little me' manipulativeness. Wikipedia describes this:
It appears that in psychology terms such a person may be described as a 'Dependent Addict'. This type is described in Human Manipulation - A Handbook By Malcolm Coxall
However, not every person who likes to get their own way can fairly be classed as suffering psychological disorder and the phrase 'dependent addict' may be prone to being misinterpreted as refering to substance addiction, so I'd advocate caution in deployment of that term. Colloquially, I might call such a person a 'professional victim'. Within my family we call such a person a 'helpless Hetty', but that doesn't seem to be a term the Internet knows.