Thread 33521073

Over the last two years, my brother changed in a bad way. The closest to explain his behavior is that he always tries to be superior and smart-assish now. I didn't do anything for the cause of his behavior. When we talk about random things, he always tries to correct me, and belittles my opinions and gets annoyed. He even tries to find the smallest mistakes and tries to correct it only to look superior near me. As an example, when I try to say something is 90%, he then says "no akshually, it's 85%" or something like this. Sometimes he deliberately asks me a chain of questions only to find an error and to feel arrogant. He also kinda behaves like a computer and wants exact answers. In addition, when I talk, he changes the direction of the topic to his "scope" and questions lot of things back only to let me get confused. How can I improve the situation? The only thing that helps a bit is to stonewall him.

>>33521073 (OP)
Start dating "No one cares" in response to everything he says.

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You are not getting through right now, and it may be good to try at a later, more cooperative, time.

Have you ever tried to inquire? Tried to reach him and let him know if bothers you? I know it's possible for people to get an idea, from say the internet, that they are smarter than they are, or maybe they are intelligent to some degree but get a vain inflated ego over it. I don't know if that's the problem. If he's just trying to put you down, rather than merely correct you, and raise you up, it's probably for his own self aggrandizement. I personally would just suggest putting before him what you've said here. He is your brother afterall. Try to forgive him too, people know not what they do. Also, if anything like and argument is spurred on try not to be at enmity with him. There's a way you can be that makes you like an arrow pointing at something better and ascended from vain conflict.
>>33521248
I don't know if that really will help. Might actually make things worse, and devolve into inhumanity.

>>33521248
A couple pieces of missing info OP, is this a performance one on one, or always in front of others?
Are you part of the problem? Good argument and debating skills are not innate to everyone. They are a learned skill. Read up a bit. The best political types are masters at it.
Let me ask you, are you getting your points across by "proof by example" or "proof by exception" and are you using words that are hard to defend like made up or exaggerated stats or words like "always" for empasis. Try being very precise or use yourself as the basis for opinions in relation to you. Throw out a random "I did not know that, or I don't know much about that topic, but to me, I'd like things to be more objectively fair. People cannot really fault you if you start a sentence with good communication skills. Winning arguments so often might just mean he is better at debate. That jerk!

Good luck.

Just want to say: baes Nanao enjoyer.

He needs therapy. He feels inferior in his achievements thus far in life and copes by knowing more precise irrelevant facts than others. Also obviously autistic

>>33521073 (OP)
A. He realized you are retarded
B. You think you're always right
C. He's younger than you and wants to establish some autonomy and authority
D. He's a piece of shit

Take your pick

>>33521073 (OP)
this is just what being a woman is it's called being stupid. other people know you're stupid but your brother is the only male familiar enough with you to point it out. from a woman's perspective it seems like being pedantic and even a little chauvinistic but from the other perspective it's like watching someone misspell words or trip over their shoelaces constantly when women are perpetually wrong about everything that occurs in the world. so naturally the slightest comment about it makes them all insecure. in a man's world intellect is subject to the same power dynamics and whoever has the stronger grasp of the subject wins out. it's about pummeling other people with your superior abilities in the realm of systematic conception and argumentation about things and nothing's more annoying in that respect than a woman thinking she can trade blows with a man in a straight up battle of wits in this case. no offense but if i were you i'd stop having opinions because they're probably wrong. and if you're not a woman then just disregard my whole post i just got the feeling that you are.

>>33521073 (OP)
Who tf says this shit? Srs when was the last time you ever got laid?