To ask why some people love correcting others at every available opportunity?

[ILackCreativity]

I’m on the verge of breaking up with DP this is driving me nuts.

Just came back from the cafe. This is a cafe that we often visit. They only serve 2 types of bagels. It’s been this way since it opened. My hands were full so used dictation to send him a message. He responded with a question mark. 5 seconds later I get another message asking “Did you mean “plain”?” Turns out Siri sent him “cheese or plane bagel?”

I bought 2 plain ones and he’s now miffed because it’s the wrong one.

This is how he is all the time. Constant corrections. I say the iPad is on the sofa. He walks over, finds it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and comes back saying “did you mean the coffee table?”

Dictation or swipe to type doesn’t always get the apostrophes right. Instead of responding to the message he will correct my typos. Apparently things being wrong offends him and he can’t help himself as he would love it if people would correct him when he’s wrong. To him being accurate is more important than everything else.

I’m done. This isn’t a quirk I can live with anymore. What I’m curious about is why do people do this? Does it make them feel superior? Why?

*rein

DD and I both naturally do it because autism. It's like having something stuck between your teeth if it stays uncorrected.

But.

I'd quite like to not piss people off too much, so I've learnt to just say it inside my head, not out loud, and I'm teaching DD the same.

IMO arseholes who keep doing it into adulthood have a severe lack of social understanding and somehow genuinely think they're right to correct you as though they were your teacher. It's patronising, and they should have been told to STFU a great deal more as a child.