Daft_ishWhat are some things you do to check yourself from being a 'know it all'?
gregorumi try to remember something Picard once said to Data about limiting one’s answers to information that’s pertinent and contextually-relevant to a situation. people don’t want a lecture when a quick answer will do.
i have observed that, typically, when someone asks me a question, it’s because they’re trying to solve a problem, not to learn something new. The best course of action, then, is to help them solve their problem by giving them an expedient and relevant answer rather than to attempt to educate them on a new subject. they often have neither the interest nor the time.
funkajunkNow that I think about it, was Data autistic?
Data has very much been adopted by the autistic community, but it’s debatable to what extent we can think of Data as being autistic. Certainly his character resonated with a lot of autistic and other neurodivergent folk, but it’s likely that this wasn’t even intentional.