when someone gets something wrong about special intrests

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Zoology, veternary medicine and animals in general have anyways been my special intrests. The only exception is Titan A.E. but I wonder if I really just like the cute little anthropromorphic lizard thing. Anyway, even as a little kid I was never afraid to show how much I knew about animals. At zoos when an "educator" or keeper would tell about said species, I would shout to drown them out and end up giving the lecture myself. The educators and keepers were usualy Godsmacked about how much a little kid could know and let me continue. I think only one found it rude and it got into a power struggle over who could drown the other person out. I lost of course because my mother lead me away and lectured me on how rude it was. In the beginning I did not know it was rude. I thought I was doing the educator or keeper a favor or simply giving their speech a little "flavor". I was really hoping they would be so impressed they would let me touch the animal. They were touching it and half the time they did not seem to like that said animal and the animal was nice to them. Surely the animal would be nice to someone who liked it. "Educators" often got things wrong or gave false information, such as the case of this idot at the aquarium a few years ago who said that penguins do not live outside of Antartica.

It drives me crazy when someone gets an animal fact wrong and tries to convince other people it is true. As an adult, I politely try to correct them but if they do not listen, I scoff them and say, "Whatever, dude." But as a kid I would have a violent meltdown. My old sig used to say, "Spell meerkat with a C and I will stab you". I came across it in someone elses sig on a Lion King site and thought I meant it more than they did so I used it on various messageboards until the mods got on me about it. It was meant as a joke but a few years ago, it was true in a way. Today, I like to test how much these "educators" actualy know so I will ask detailed questions I already know the answers too. If they do not know them, I'll ask them questions to embarass them.

It used to annoy me when people spell Dalmatian wrong. This was back when I was obsessed with the movie.

I have corrected people about Benny & Joon. They get lines wrong from the movie or anything wrong and I would want to correct them. At fanfiction.net someone wrote a fanfic on the movie and the writer called the river next to Benny's house a lake. I commented on the story telling the author it's a river. I remember I was reading that story again years later and I saw my old comment I posted as a guest so i didn't bother saying it again. I feel a little annoyed when i would read the stories and they get things wrong about Spokane and I was like do the fricken research.

At IMDB someone said at the message board about the movie, someone has painted the B& house another color and I asked what color and the person said she didn't remember. I asked her how can she know if she can't remember? Did she read about it in the paper or what. She said she lives in Spokane and I thought it was odd she wouldn't know the new color of the house or how else did she know? Maybe she saw it once and wasn't going to bother to drive there to look at it again. So I drove there and looked at the house and it was the same color but it was all fixed up and the yard and the home looked nicer. The tree had been cut down. I get back on the computer at my parents house and say it's the same color. She told me I know more than she does.

No of course I didn't get in my car and drive all the way to Spokane just to see the new house color. I did it on the way to Montana to see my parents. No way would I drive 5 1/2 to Spokane and back just for that. So I did it on the way to my parents.

I even get annoyed when people spell Joon wrong because they spell it as June. Look at the fricken movie title, why must they change it? It also annoyed me when people say the diner was filmed in the milk bottle. A building that was next door to Fergusons where the movie was filmed. The building that was next door to it had a huge milk bottle in the front.

I don't think it's nice to embarrass people for not knowing stuff so it's not something I do.

I used to correct people all the time about getting the definition of emo wrong. These days I'm just like 'it's a genre, not a fashion trend or a lifestyle.' A few years ago I would go into a lot more detail i.e the year the music genre started and the bands that were real emo bands. One friend who then told me about that their were emo waves, as in different styles of the music in different time periods got an earful from me, and my mum witnessed it all and yelled at me. I told her I was right but she said I wouldn't have many friends if I kept this attitude up.

I would always correct people if they got something wrong about my special interests.

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to my older sister about Alice in Wonderland and she said Elijah Wood was going to play the Mad Hatter. I corrected her and said that Johnny Depp was going to play him. She said "Oh. But I swear Elijah Wood is in that movie." I dropped the conversation since there's no way you can win an argument with her. To this day I still wonder where in the flippin' heck she got that idea from... It's bothering me a lot more than it probably should.

Back when I was obsessed with anime/manga, my other older sister pronounced 'manga' like 'mayn-guh', when the proper way to pronounce it is "mahn-gah'. It always ground on my nerves, even though I never said anything. To be fair to her, she has spent the past several years living in Manchester, so maybe that's how people with English accents pronounce it? I dunno.

I know that Johnny plays the mad hatter, but he looks like Elijah Wood, especially with that gap in his teeth. Maybe she was just confused because it looked like him.

My sister and I never knew how to pronounce anime or manga because we were the only people into it. Eventually on some kids show that pronounced it the correct way so we know now. I also blame it on my Australian accent.

I always have a need to correct people when they get a fact about one of my special interests wrong. Depending on the place, I will correct or will try to restrain myself. Like, on one forum for my current primary special interest, there are many posts and comments about the special interest that are incorrect. I cannot possibly correct them all without looking like a know-it-all, so I choose to just correct the ones that need correcting the most. Same with when people ask questions about the special interest; I'll just answer the ones that I know nobody else will know the answer to. When it comes to real-life conversations, I will always correct my family and closest friends. I try my best to hold in my need to correct with people I don't know well or people such as professors who I am supposed to respect. But I will always silently burn inside and keep yelling the correct fact in my head.
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You should have pulled up the IMDB page to prove her wrong.

Why is it so wrong to correct people?

Oh... You're right. The Mad Hatter does look kinda like Elijah Wood. Even my Nana says that Johnny doesn't look like his usual self in the movie, so I guess I should be more forgiving of my sister.

*smacks forehead* You're absolutely right! I wish I'd thought of that right then and there, especially since we were here at my house and I could have easily logged on.

People get annoyed with it.

Once I had missed one of my favourite TV shows, Love My Way and I was waiting for it be repeated. My mum said the next day it will be on, because on the channel it's on they play the shows that have been on all week back to back. But I said it's not on all week, it's on one day of the week so they couldn't play back to back episodes. She got frustrated with me and started repeating what she just said. Then I said it's on once and then repeated on another day. She then told me to 'get f**ked, you're right and I'm always wrong.'
Thing was, I was right. I don't know why I had to get yelled at for being right. I know that she finds me correcting her being annoying but the thing was I couldn't hold back even if I wanted to. I get in this kind of trance of proving that I'm right.

Apparently it's not good manners, I don't know why as I would prefer it if someone corrected me about something.

When I was a kid I used to get really upset if someone got something wrong about a special interest of mine and wouldn't let me correct them. Like when I had an obsession with video cameras and my mum didn't listen to me about how to operate it even though she knew that she was doing it wrong. I would usually get really angry, I don't know why because I don't care about it anymore.

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I've noticed 2 reasons:

1. They misunderstand "I believe you are incorrect" as "I believe you are stupid." I'm not quite sure how to get around this, as it seems that no matter how much you try to explain what you meant and apologise for any offence you may have caused, some people are just determined to be offended.

2. It breaks the flow of a conversation. Most people seem to just want social conversation to flow smoothly and easily without breaks whenever they get a fact wrong. In these situations, the "flow" of a conversation is more important (to the majority of people) than strict factual accuracy. The way to get around these situations is to just let them be incorrect. You know you're correct, why should you worry about everyone else? Their misinformation is their problem.

I always figured it was ego and people don't like to be wrong. They are still wrong even if they aren't corrected. And they say aspies always have to be right? I see it in other people too. By how they act when they get corrected, I act better than that.

I also feel stupid when I am wrong so perhaps that's how others feel when they are wrong. But I still feel the urge to correct people because I hate hearing the wrong things and I don't want them to keep being wrong about it. That's how I feel about myself so I like to be corrected. Why can't others feel the same way?

i get that too when it comes to grammar, or quite often when relatives think I'm going to be a humanities scholar when I'm going to be a scientist. (I was known as the bookworm and the poem-writer, even though I hardly write poetry.)

It probably happens because both people think they are right. Someone has to be wrong or they won't be disagreeing with each other. So when neither backs down an argument ensues.