The one question that used to confuse me...

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I know what you mean!! I work in the blue coller section and I have to play dumb most days. One of my big problems is I will use a word that people will not understand and people will look at me funny, Its very annoying. But the knowledge thing is worse. I come up with some wierd fact and I get a look like I had just sinned or something. Very annoying indeed!!

I just reply with 'I read it.' I read it somewhere, seeing as they never ask where, you don't have to lie.

OH MAN are YOU ever right! I have actually tried to explain how utterly FALLACIOUS their reasoning is and that EVEN if they were right, they'd be wrong.(I started talking like this to some degree like yogi beara(sp?) because there is just NO logic to their ideas!)

Plainly put, if you HAD to go to college to learn something, then you could never learn it because there would be nobody to teach it in college! WHY? Because THEY couldn't learn it in college to teach it! It is the old fashioned circular argument! MOST technology and careers are developed OUTSIDE of college! The college determines if they can make money, and bluff their way through, and start teaching it. The first teachers might have NO idea of what they are teaching.

BESIDES, I learned my career before college ever taught it! I started learning it before I got out of highschool. For my FIRST career choice, I started learning it before I went to KINDERGARTEN! I never even stated that elsewhere, because they seem to think you have to be a certain age to work with electronics!

BTW If you are in electronics, or computers, and can't learn OUTSIDE of college, YOU ARE SUNK! Things change TOO FAST! Any decent persons technical knowledge within 10 years will be mostly learned OUTSIDE!

Steve

I just tell them I pulled it out of my ass.

if it's something i tool the time to look up myself... i can generally remember where i read it.

like when i started reading dictionaries for foreign languages (when i was 9 or 10)... i can still pretty much remember which dictionary (of mine) that i found any particular word.

studying stuff in highschool... i could colorcode a whole page of a textbook with highlighters, which gave it a special look and i could remember what page a fact came from (although i couldn't always see the word on the page in my mind and thus it was sometimes useless to remember where i read it, say for tests... but i could tell you what page number it would be on). if the book had more pics and diagrams and such on it... i didn't need the highlighters so much.

if it's stuff that i learned from someone... i don't really remember when where... i'm lucky to remember who.

What gets me is sometimes when people ask that, what you initially said might be clearly obvious to anyone with a brain. Some things are just known fact, besides, it's not like NTs ask other NTs where they learned anything. I halfway think that the NT thinks we're socially inept so we must be stupid, or not know what we're talking about. Especially if we happen to say something that goes against mainstream perception.

Actually, most people use fewer "big" words, and people ask me where I learned something only if they hear a lot of unusual information, or something sounds TOO complete, technical, obscure, or complex.

As for the social ineptness? I'm sure they see that as a cause. Really smart or technical people aren't generally seen as gregarious.

Steve

lol yer... even aspies ask other aspies this question.

quatermass asked me where i learned the definition of "geek" from.... i said, "a dictrionary, lol"

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