Is it normal that i have a need to prove someone wrong?

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If a friend says (example) “Mario’s hat is blue.” I will object and state a fact that it’s red. And go as far as proving they are wrong by showing pictures. (If they believe that it is blue, for some reason)

My friends (like two friends out of five) get mad at me and say they’re always wrong and hate when I correct them even when what I state is true and a fact.

I figured it’s not that I have the need to prove I’m right, but to prove they are wrong. Is this normal or is something wrong here? I can also say I’m argumentative.

Also, if I am actually wrong (let’s say Mario’s hat is actually blue), I will apologize for the outburst and admit I was wrong.

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[Old Memory]

6 years ago

You’re wrong for doing that. Wrong.

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Whatintarnation

6 years ago

So you have the need to feel superior to your friends? Eventually, they're going to stop calling you.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  I did not say I have a need to feel superior. If someone is wrong about something obvious, you want them to know the truth right?
  
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  - Whatintarnation
    
    6 years ago
    
    You say in your spiel that you have the need to prove your friends wrong. Which to me, means you have a need to feel superior to your friends. Which may very well be the case. Regardless of being right or not, I'm simply saying you may come off as an asshole to your friends.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      6 years ago
      
      I have a need to prove them wrong when they are wrong, if they are wrong am I suppose to not say “hey your wrong about that, it’s actually this?” I don’t want my friends to go around believing the wrong things, if I wanted to feel superior about being right I’d bully or belittle them for being wrong.
      
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nikkiclaire

6 years ago

Well that's one way to wind up without any friends at all.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  Then, why are my friends still my friends?
  
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  - nikkiclaire
    
    6 years ago
    
    Well if you are young it may just be proximity friendships. Once people get a life they will cut you out of it, if you keep acting like a jerk.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      6 years ago
      
      I’m 20 something. Most of my friends have a life.
      
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odilo_globotnik

6 years ago

Petty ego much?

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  No, You people are reading it all wrong.
  Simple:
  
  If someone is wrong about something obvious, you’d want to tell them the truth so they don’t embarrass themselves.
  
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Hotdogsaregross

6 years ago

Sometimes it’s best to let things slide. Especially over something small like your example. If it’s a major thing they’re wrong about then you should tell them. Correcting some small things are okay but if you are constantly doing it then that can be very annoying and upsetting to the person.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  But then if they’re convinced it’s the truth do I just play along?
  
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Ellenna

6 years ago

I've known a few people like you in my long life and they've all been boring and arrogant and boring and BORING .... I was even married to someone like that a long time ago and I left him. Life's far too short for pointless arguments: unless you're completely stupid (which is possible) you could surely find a more constructive past-time rather than end up despised and friendless

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  Little do you know, I know people who think like you too. Thinking one person is exactly the same as another because they behavior in a certain way.
  
  It’s like how people who knew/know someone with Borderline Personality, just because that one person with BPD treated them wrongly (or how you e met people who were boring and arrogant because they were either 1) right, or 2.) wanted to be right even if they were wrong which I do not do) you begin to see one person as all the rest.
  
  If this person thinks they’re rights, likes arguments — ergo, they’re probably arrogant and boring.
  
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donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

6 years ago

if everyones wrong everyones right

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RoseIsabella

6 years ago

What about when your friends are right, and you are wrong?

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  Then, I am wrong and they are right.
  For instance, my friend said it was currently spring. He is right and wrong, because it’s not spring yet, but it’s March which is when spring begins.
  
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Fetiza000

6 years ago

I dont find it very accurate that chickens came from the trex or someshit.

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- JellyBeanBandit
  
  6 years ago
  
  The larger dinosaurs died out from the meteor impact. So birds wouldn't have evolved from the T-Rex, they would've evolved from smaller dinosaurs.
  
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Pumpurrnickel

6 years ago

Don't know how normal it is, but that's how I am as well. It results in a lot of arguments. Not that I have a problem with that either.

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