Genius, as in thinking outside the box.
Ingenuous?
Meta?
“Awkward” is how I like to describe myself when exhibiting this characteristic.
Maybe, but many autistic people aren’t good at reading facial expressions.
Well, whoever comes up with the word will have demonstrated the word in the coming-upedness of it, and will cause a paradigm shift, because we will all then know a word for that concept.
I submit insightful, perspicacious, sagacious, astute, or profound
Pain-in-the-ass?
We’ve all had those guys in our class that wouldn’t shut up and asked the stupidest questions.
So you would call him a…?
Maybe a reverse dictionary can help?:
Comics that do that are called ‘observational’ – as soon as I read your post, Jerry Seinfeld was the name that popped into my head.
Other kinds of people that might ask such questions are skeptics. One oft-repeated tenet of skepticism is that you should question everything, and don’t take anything for granted, including your own most cherished beliefs. It’s more of asking “I or other people believe this, but Is this really true?”.
Doper?