Are you a Know-it-all?

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But like many people, I only talk about things that I know about. If I don't know something I simply shut up and listen. I take criticism well and I think if someone criticizes me it's probably because I deserved to be corrected. I personally like know-it-alls. I like listening to people that know a lot about something and are passionate about what they know. Because I want to know what they know about what they are talking about. I think people are annoyed with the idiotic knowitalls that never say anything of substance. I also have the benefit of being black. Black knowitalls are so f*****g rare that teachers and students will let us talk on and on and on simply because they want to encourage other blacks to be intelligent. Black kids shun me, but white kids surround me haha. It's one of the few benefits of being black and autistic haha.

Are you a Know-it-all?

Yes. In the sense, before you light a match, i'm gonna tellya IF u have gasoline underwear on because it's gonna be left to me to PUT out those flames.

The other alternative IS to back away, don't say any
thing, and let your ass burn BUT the lord knows i would never do THAT.

TheSunAlsoRises

I was just kidding about the alternative response. LoL,


TheSunAlsoRises

I have had people tell me I am, but I honestly just feel like I'm helping people when I correct them. I'm well read (especially in science and technology) so I like to share my knowledge with people. I'm often accused of being arrogant, but I never mean to be. I think some people feel like i'm insulting their intelligence if I correct them. This notion is ridiculous to me! It must be a NT thing or something because if I don't know anything about a subject and someone else does, I wont waste time denying that I already know about it. I see it as an opportunity to learn something new!

It depends. I win most of my intellectual battles, but that is mostly because I choose them wisely. To avoid looking stupid, I don't choose to argue any point I am not well versed enough in to win. I will instead defer to the knowledge of the other person in the discussion and then try to figure out how to poke holes in their logic for future reference.

Whenever I spot typos or grammatical errors, I HAVE to point it out, and it seems to annoy some people.

Not at all, I feel I know nothing and that everybody else knows it all.

I think I can come off as one, but that is surely not my intent.

No and I dislike people that act like know it alls. If someone gives me a piece of information I think is incorrect, I will politely say I disagree and give them an explanation why I think this. If you just tell someone there wrong and that's it, it will most likely turn into an argument rather than a civil debate. It doesn't give me the feeling of "I was right and you weren't" type arrogance either. I'm just happy knowing that I've managed to teach someone something new, and feel the same when the roles are reversed.

Yes, but I keep my mouth shut and my mind open.

I can't really get on with know-it-alls. Every time I say something they doubt me on it then start criticising or giving me complicated ideas that don't suit me. Right now we are re-decorating our bathroom, and my mum still doesn't quite know how she wants it, but it's no good me trying to give ideas because a) I don't know anything about improving, and b) nobody listens to my ideas anyway, but if someone else comes up with exactly the idea I have, they get listened to.

I remember my cousin used to be a know-it-all. Every time I came up with a new idea, he would know everything about it and make the idea sound so complicated. Like when I said I'm taking driving lessons, he started going through a big list of all the things I need to do in order to run a car, and I didn't know if he was trying to discourage me or just take over by knowing all about everything. He was younger than me and seemed to know more than me.

Everybody knows more than me, though. I know nothing.

Yes, and by different groups of people as well. My old housemates from back home used to call me "the sponge" because I had a habit of soaking up seemingly random information but they didn't think bad of me for it. They just thought it was funny.

A friend in Switzerland always says I have phases of being a know-it-all. I've also been banned from playing Buzz! on the PS3 because I always win, without exception.

I am definitely a know-it-all to the point that my my mom calls me Encyclopedia. As in, "I don't know ask the encyclopedia".

Its been that way my whole life and though there have been rare exceptions, I'm usually the smartest person around. I'm pretty sure its because I read a lot and forget nothing. Sometimes this can be a curse too. I often don't have the patience or desire to correct people, I hold it in so that they will shut up faster or move on.

They say ignorance is bliss and that may be the one thing I will never know.

Yes, as some people that know me would ignorantly assume.