Are you a Know-it-all?

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Two of my little sisters called me Miss Know-it-all forever. I think they still do behind my back (we're all around 50.) It never bothered me coming from them because I was older; of course I would know more. I was at least two grades higher than them and both weren't/aren't the brightest bulbs on the string. I mostly considered them pests, because they really were.

But, I am a Know-it-all. I'm fairly confident about what I know and if something is important to me, I often go on more than is welcome. I try to be as brief as possible and resist the compulsion to waste everyone's time with my "endless drivel," but that comes off as dismissive.

I like to be right. I've struggled with the fact that I'm not always right, and I'm also not always the most knowledgeable person in the room. (I was while attending school; if you don't count the teachers.) I've also been called condescending. Honestly, I don't feel as if I'm being so, but sometimes I can see how something could be construed as such. Anymore, I just tell people up front that I'm very direct. I don't mean anything by it and if I offend them, would they please say something.

Do any of you experience anything similar? How do you deal with it?

I desire to know all things, both good and evil, and yes, I am a complete know it all.

I used to get accused I was shoving my intelligence in peoples faces but since I've moved I've found two other people that do this and they don't seem to get nearly as annoyed when I do it.

Sometimes (actually most times) I feel really uncomfortable if I can't correct someone. I'm not trying to shove it in their face but I'd just like them to know. It's hard to explain but it's like a really bad itch I can't scratch.

Were I given but one wish, it would be for omniscience.

XKCD #386:

Mouseover: "What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"

Yes, I am a Know-It-All. But I still do not know even half of what I want to know (i. e. everything).

Of all the information there is to know, how much do you estimate mankind knows? 50%? 20%? 2%? .0004%?

I suppose I am pretty knowledgeable. But being a librarian, I am constantly reminded of what I really don't know, and never will. It's humbling and intimidating.

I've read, I think in Attwood, that aspies take great pride in being able to astound people with their knowledge. I'm no exception. I say, show me the error of my ways: prove me wrong. When I lose, I'm the better for it.

I try to avoid being a know it all as I love to learn and I consider it to be the enemy of learning. After all if I am a know it all how can there be anything more left to learn.

Most of us know very little, we only think we are always right. It is a human ego thing. It needs the illusion. Humans are consumed by their illusions, myself included sometimes.

Much of what we think we know now will be tomorrows forgotten knowledge and new studies and new reseach bring up new facts that we were not aware of.

Besides I don't want to know it all, what fun would that be. What would I have left to learn about? I'd be bored if I knew it all.

This is why I like academics, research and science...there is always something new to discover!

Unduki, to give you a practical answer to your predicament:

"I like to be right."

I get the line after I've won an argument that I, "always have to be right." I tell them that's correct. I don't say things I know to be false. Do you? You've got them down for the count:)

Taking the word a bit literally there. I don't really care if it's tomorrows forgotten knowledge. I like to keep up to date on new information but also remember how information came to be. Hey, I'm a collector and even my brain likes to collect bits of information and just like I show off my latest Doctor Who figure or plane or camera lens I like to show off my collection of facts. The older and rarer the information in my collection the better, just like the rare items in my Doctor Who collection.

I don't mind being corrected. I get a bit embarrassed for being impulsive and not first being sure that I knew the information was factual, but then I'm learning something new.

Also, if some one is wrong I will not let them remain being wrong, I hate being wrong and it will be my pleasure to enlightent them with the gift of knowledge, which for some they do not appreciate.

I don't have enough evidence to confirm whether I am, but I do know my friend once called me Carl Sagan when I went on about molecular age of bodies and planetary lifetimes, or something, one day at lunch. I was happy to be compared to Mr. Sagan than anything.

Yes! (Unfortunately, most people hate truth. (and they hate know-it-alls, too.)

Nice pic, Fnord. I remember finding that pic a long time ago and loving it.

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Yes I am a Know It All. I try to rein it in when I realize I am doing it and being insufferable, but yes I am a lifetime Know it All.

However google is giving me a serious run for my money. Joking....In my family we are all know it alls, this must be why me and the siblings don't get together that often, we don't like to share the spotlight?