Are you a Know-it-all?

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Yup, I'm the same. But I only talk about what I know to be true, unlike most who seem to speak in half truths and get mad when you call them on it.

If I'm wrong, I hope people will correct me. I may feel embarrassed for a bit, but to me knowledge is much more important.

Sometimes, when explaining things about my life, people think I'm bragging or looking for sympathy when I'm actually just explaining objectively. I constantly try to preempt that by explaining beforehand. Even when I do that, I don't think some people believe me.

I am only a know it all when it comes to opinion related things, eg religion or ethics

What if you actually know it all? That's an interesting concept.

Nah, I'm not; I just know a lot of facts because I have a good memory, and I know a lot about a few different subjects because they're my ASD interest. I've been called such when correcting people, but that's just silly social talk. I like being corrected if I'm wrong.

Probably. Mom will cut me off when I keep on correcting her because she keeps getting the same information wrong I have already corrected her on. My ex used to say I always had to be right. I like to be educated so I do it to others and I don't see why they would want to stay ignorant. I always have the urge to correct them. Only time I don't do it is if I am not up for a drama because then I be stuck arguing with them for things they are wrong about and I have noticed that people who think they are always right are always wrong. My nephew is like that too and in fact he and his little sister corrected me when I called my mother in law their grandmother than grandma. I told them grandmother and grandma are the same thing, some just like to say grandmother just like some people will call their mom and dads mommy or daddy or papa or mama just like some will call their grandmas grandmother. if they still argued with me on that, I would have pulled out my son's baby book and tun to the family tree page and show them the words "grandmother" on both pages when my mom's name is and their grandmother's name.

I once corrected my boss's grammar and that slipped out. Luckily he didn't say anything.

My husband also says I have to be right and I argue with him about everything he says. He may tell me to do something and I argue instead of just doing it. I will ask him why and why can't he do this or that or why can;t he do it himself.

I am also a "prove it" type person because I always want to know how someone knows things. I don't know why some get offended by it. It's not like I ask for their medical records or photos of their homes or anything. Just me asking questions is the prove it thing. I like to know if it's a fact or an opinion. if it's an opinion, I don't take it seriously. My husband has noticed I only want facts, not opinions. Opinions can be wrong. I also want to know if it's a fact or an assumption they are making.

Everyone on WP is a know it all. We all know that.

I am, or at least very pedantic. It's one of the reasons I call myself Broader Autism Phenotype. I have been annoying people with it since toddlerhood. My parents say that as soon as I learned to talk and learned simple words like some nouns and color names, I would insist incorrectly that various things fit into the limited categories I already knew. They were my parents so they found this comical. As I grew older, other children just found it aggravating. But I learned to corral it enough to make friends and am able to corral it as needed as an adult. It does make PPR a fun place for me to dabble in. The hard core know-it-alls never leave there but I just dabble.

I'm not a know-it-all because I DON'T know it all. Everything I say is wrong and people say, ''no it isn't!'' or something like that, so I can never win.

My cousin (yes, NT!) is a know-it-all. When we were 14 I said that I wanted to learn to drive and get a car when I turn 17, and he said, ''yeah but you need to pay a lot for your car'', and he went through a big list of different things that I would have to pay for to do with my car. I thought, ''how does he know all that at 14 years old?'' I'm 21 now, have passed my driving tests and everything, and I still don't know the first thing about road tax insurance and everything.

Also when I was 15 I went through an obsession about pubs, and I said, ''when I leave school I'm going to work in a pub'', and my cousin started asking me what different types of drinks were, and he seemed to know about it all.

So, no, NTs can be know-it-alls just as much as Aspies can. But I have seen some know-it-all Aspies on here. I'm certainly not a know-it-all. In fact I act thick a lot of the time.

Yep, people call me a know-it-all. It's a silly term, of course, because no one knows "it all", but I certainly strive for knowledge and, if I find something I don't know, I'll most likely go and learn about it.

I don't know what you're talking about and I resent the implication.

I make it my business to know as much about as many things as possible. If I can't contribute some knowledge to a discussion I take that as a failure at conversation. I'm not well liked for it.

Yeah totally

Yes. I am.

I was much more when I was younger. I think now I am able to see myself doing it more and back off on it.
I used to do it to my boss all the time (luckily she's also my best friend....still is). I was working as an AV tech at a College and she'd tell me to do something and I would spend time trying to explain to her the correct terms she should have used for parts, etc, even though I was able to figure out what she meant.
For NTs, they seem to not care if what they said was the wrong thing, as long as you are able to decipher it. But I was always concerned about what if I didn't decipher her correctly?!?

I've never actually been called a "know-it-all" to my knowledge, but many people have thought that about me through the years. Not correcting somebody (especially when it's something related to science or one of my other big special interests) is like a compulsion for me, too. It just gnaws at me inside and irritates me until I can correct the person. Now, I can let a lot of errors go by now than I used to, but I still need to correct for science errors.

I rarely correct people as a way to show I'm superior, though. Most of the time, I just want people to know the correct answer in case they care. But unfortunately, NTs DON'T care, as others have said. They just seem to have no interest in facts/knowledge. The only time I am arrogant and want to prove I'm superior in knowledge is when somebody directly challenges me and says they know more about one of my big special interests than I do. I've had several I Love Lucy challenges, and after I shot the know-nothings down, I walked away feeling victorious.

My prefered subjects, yes. But more so when I was younger, I've learned that I always have more to learn. But if I'm passionate about something watch out, I can't stop talking.

Then on subjects that I'm not interested in, I can literally fall asleep in a conversation, ask my husband, I'm not kidding. So would that be a know it all in reverse, that I'm so sure the topic stupid that it's not worth staying awake for?

I'm a, "I-don't-know-it-all-and-niether-do-you."

It tends to rub people's egos the wrong way. Everybody thinks they're a friggen "genius" these days. Damn self-esteem classes.....

I was a know-it-all, but this is something I've been working on.
These days I let people make mistakes without correcting them.