General lack of curiosity?

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I am on the highly curious /inquisitive side of life, always asking why, how, who, where, when, what??????
I guess I have annoyed people all my life with questions.
I have been amazed at the lack of curiosity that many others I encounter seem to have.
Are you on the curious/inquisitive/ questioning side too?

Oh yes. On the rare occasions that nothing aroused my curiosity I took it as a warning that I may be sinking into depression. But I've never been in such low spirits for long. Only the other day I noticed somebody had quoted somebody here and a typo had slipped in. I've been wondering ever since how that could have happened. I mean, normally to quote somebody you just press the Quote button and there it is, no typing necessary. Did somebody do it the long way round and type in the quote by hand? If so, why? Of course it doesn't matter for any practical purpose, but for some reason it matters to my brain.

It annoys me that other people so rarely share my sense of curiosity. I probably annoy them when I waste their time by asking questions they see no point in asking. My father was normally very patient with my questions, and usually enjoyed offering answers, but even he got tired of it from time to time. Others have mistakenly thought that I was siding with somebody or some ideology they disliked, and arguing in its favour. I guess they just don't understand curiosity.

Yes I am. I rejected others (inwardly) as irrelevant for a long time until one day I realised chit chat is a valuable source of local information. In the area where I live, local information isn't on the internet.

However my cousin's wife asked questions without letup as a conversational gambit, it got bewildering, so I try not to let it go that far. I try to disclose as well.

My mother was extremely un-curious about me and it took a very very long time for me to spot that this why I felt so unloved. That is another reason why I realise the importance of asking questions or just waiting and looking interested.

@toughdiamond re your quote observation, do you think the person chose quote and then accidentally deleted part of it and tried to retype it? I get intrigued by this kind of thing too.

Short answer is YES. That is how I learn. Many people can get annoyed when you ask a question. It is because they themselves do not know the answer. Or they feel you are challenging their knowledge or the information they are passing onto others. But It allows me to learn. Questions are good things. If you combine all the answers together it allows you to look at the problem from many different angles and then you can chose the best approach, the best solution.

yes, information seeking and sharing has always been my "social mode" but it doesn't work well in a lot of circles. I suspected you guys would give me the answers you did. If my autism has any gifts attached it is the curiosity thing. I am happy once again and reassured to find that here, I am not alone <3 Thank you all!

Yes.
And it can border into nosiness.

I do have a lot of questions but..
People wouldn't understand. Or, cannot answer. Or, it's not appropriate -- whether I know if it is or not.

Or, it's in NT-vocab wording that I have to translate manually that they mean well and not judging me as if me being wrong meant I'm a defect, instead a still learning human. Their culture. Their world.

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As a scientist, I have always had a constant drive to find out about different topics. It led me to take things apart and “Frankenstein” them together as a kid. Some of the things that I created were quite dangerous to others. I played with various poisons and explosives as a child, so chemistry is natural for me.

I spend many of my down hours trying to solve quantum mechanical puzzles on how particles are formed. Most people would not waste their time pondering over the questions that I research. My work in this area has given me a unique insight on how the universe works, at both big and small levels. If you ask an average person what causes charge in particles, the common reply is “Who cares?. That would be me that they are referring to.

I am curious about things which other people don't feel I should be curious about.

I could care less about things that other people are curious about.

usagibryan I hear you but I think part of the problem is that others actually do have this curiosity and we are not giving them room, because talking comes so much easier, to some of us, than listening. Any conversation and any relationship has to have give and take. I have also learned, from being on the receiving end, that intensity is a real conversation and relationship killer. We get "on a mission" and it's much harder then to really listen to what they say, which may appear to completely derail our own train of thought, but that is how conversations work.

Let's get totally new ideas, and totally new kinds of ideas, not just from our special (momentary)interests, but also from the living people around us.

Do we have a psychological "pause" and "reverse" or can we only charge forward? It's a form of bullying if so.

To be honest, it's the seemingly lifelong cutoff from other human beings that drives my intensity.

I often was unsettled by lessons seeming to begin in the middle. I didn't feel like I understood materials until I had learned just what happens at the tip of a crack that may or may not extend.
Without basic understanding, people can go badly wrong going by what "looks right." For many years, streamlining on cars had an evil reputation because it resembled aircraft shapes, and was reducing the grip of the tires with lift. Then we got styling copied from supersonic aircraft for a while, which is not as fast as more rounded shapes at car speeds.
I was recently horrified to learn that marine architects still design propellers according to the formula first used to decide if they should be tested against paddle wheels in a tug-of-war. If they used the equations that apply to moving through the water, they could get 20% better mileage.
I spent over a decade puzzling over what my ex had been shouting, until I finally unravelled her false assumptions.

Yes. One of my best friends is the most incurious person I know. I just don't get her perspective. She's not stupid, but she just doesn't wonder about things or have any desire to dig deeper than what she's already been told. It boggles my mind.