I grew up around a dad who would argue about things he knew nothing about & never even read anything about & his arguments were based only on his WRONG opinions. Even as a young kid I realized this & it embarrassed me so badly I learned from that never to discuss opinions as facts & it kept me from even discussing anything for most of my growing up years....(I just listened a lot) But it also kept my parents from having any REAL friends or socializing because no one wanted to include them unless they absolutely had to.

I honestly thought it was caused by my dad's lack of education when I was growing up until I ended up marrying an EDUCATED version of my dad. After spending 54 years if my life around that, I now refuse to even engage with people like though it can take some time to realize that is actually the way they are. Sometimes it is more obvious than others. Even though I have made sure I have educated myself & am now capable if engaging in normal conversations without the fear I had of sounding like my dad or my almost-X H I am still VERY careful.

It is difficult not engaging with someone you know is wrong because there seems to be an instinctual desire to educate with the facts no matter how incapable they are of learning or comprehending or even desiring to know those facts. When I realized this was when I learned it was a waste of time & energy to even engage with people like that but learning the control to disengage can be tricky too especially if we were used to engaging with people like that throughout our lives.