Do people make fun of you for "knowing"?

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Why does that happen? You tell people how much you know about cats, or the space exploration and they make fun of you for it. It makes me not want above average intelligence.

I think that a lot of normal people don't know how to interpret the "special interest" that Asperger people have. So they think it's weird. They can't relate to being that absorbed in something that is not social. Their minds are not as unbounded in certain directions as AS peoples' are in their area of interest. So if your special interest is cats or space exploration, you will kind of blow them away and confuse them if you start unloading on them.

It's better to not unload too much onto unsuspecting NTs, when it comes to your area of special interest, unless you know they have that same interest.

Unload your dearth of special-interest knowledge gradually. Unloading it on other people, all at once, one time, and one setting can be very off-putting. Believe me, I know. I used to do that to the only person who was obligated to listen, Mom. I could catch myself and sense the exact moment when she lost interest, and correct myself. But those who are a little lower on the spectrum are completely oblivious.

I sort of mean, you know how cats meow in different ways so you know what they're saying? When a cat meows and someone wonders what the cat's saying, and you come out of nowhere, and tell her that the cat's caterwauling. (I want sex)

This isn't limited to Aspies.

Many NTs who aren't as intelligent as they would either like to be or thing they are tend to use mocking of those smarter than them as a defense mechanism to cover up their own feelings of inadequacy.

I am an intelligent NT and I get this too occasionally when I talk over peoples' heads.

my mates not so much make fun of as just remark upon it.. after I've unloaded some very random knowledge (usually relevant to the situation) he just remarks "and that's the kind of thing only you would know..."

Happens to me all the time. I've often wished I was less intelligent. It happens with everyything. Am I then obliged to let them believe absolute nonsense, by not telling them they're telling it?

People always see me as a nerd, a geek. They find it really uncool. I wish it was different. You are easily laughed at when you know a lot.

I was mocked all the time for "knowing too much."

But then they were the ones who were upset when they failed miserably on their tests, while I got nothing but A's.


It pays to be on the spectrum.

I think they're secretly jealous.

Actually I was just recently teased for interpreting a dog's facial expressions and sounds into words. Same sort of deal.

Some NTs don't want to know "the Truth" or "the Information" so much as they don't want to feel uncomfortable. Maybe you clear up some confusion or nonsense for them, but then at the same time you make them feel confused or uncomfortable about how you (who are such an apparently simple person on the surface) were able to, out of the blue, come out with stuff that made them look like ignorant children?

IMO the villagers with pitchforks used to burn a lot of Aspies as witches, for being "uncannily smart" and confusing them.

Then the whole conversation has no use!

Do you want to be made to feel uncomfortable in this manner?

I didn't think so.

Intelligence is more than just being able to recite trivia. It is also about knowing when to recite it, how, and to whom.

Or, as a wise man once said, "When someone asks you for the correct time, don't give them a lecture on the history of Bavarian clockmaking."

That used to happen to me all the time, and then people used to ask me stupid questions and expect me to answer.

My parents used to say the very unhelpful "They're just jealous"

I used to have this bullying by my little brother until I fixed him up (not completely yet)