If 90% of people exhibit some characteristics of the autism spectrum, shouldn't we start to consider the people with none as the ones worthy of a label? Like people with true pitch. We give them a label, not people with less than perfect pitch.
Perhaps pedantry is like true pitch or "perfect" vision. It's actually a good thing. Even if it annoys people who don't have it. I wonder if people with true pitch go through life cringing on the inside every time they hear a wrong note. But they learn to never let on that they notice.
Perhaps the part of pedantry that puts a person on the autism spectrum is not so much the noticing as it is the voicing--the seeming inability to control the expression and calling out a correction instead of just letting it slide.
I've heard some people describe the compulsion something along the lines of "I don't think of it that way, I just noticed something they said was incorrect and so I presented them the correct information", often assuming it would be appreciated.
I mean, it's probably good for engineers in the engineering room, but the culture outside of maker's spaces probably won't consider it smashing conversation.
You are simply wrong. This is a well demonstrated reality: We have more myopia than we used to. It probably (as in, initial studies are showing) that it has to do with getting enough sunlight.
either that, or it's because the internet encourages people to be passive aggressive but polite, which is a new way to fight online.
it's a problem of being in front of a screen for too long, a lot of people always want to be right, and they treat scientific accuracy like it's a religion.
nitpicking is the second worse thing after online trolling