I am a non trad freshman and I find myself asking a lot of questions in all my classes about the class material - both ones to clarify concepts that don't make sense and ones that are just out of curiosity about the subject/trying to make connections on how things we've learned work.

(For example, we're learning about genetics in biology right now, and we were discussing how it's possible to have one recessive allele for a genetic condition, like the "a" in Aa genotype for phenylketonuria or something, passed down through a family infinitely without them ever having someone with the condition presenting just because they didn't happen to have children with someone else who was aa or Aa genotype, so I asked if it was possible that we all had some genes for different bad genetic conditions and just didn't know - and when my professor said that was quite likely, I asked if that was why royals interbreeding has such bad consequences and so on.)

I ask 2-5 questions per class most every class, actually. I only take about 10 seconds at most to ask the question, and it doesn't seem to take the professor much time to answer, but I'm pretty much the only one who does this in all my classes, and for sure the only one asking the amount of questions I do, so I worry that I'm being an annoyance and other students know better than to do this.

I think this is mainly because it's a little hard for me to stay engaged with the material if I'm not making connections about it to real life or developing sets of rules for learning new things like in chemistry - and because while I was out of school working after HS, I realized classes were actually something I really missed. I truly don't intend to be the stereotype of a gunner - I just really want to know things! - but all my friends say it's kind of weird that I do this and that maybe I should just be chill like everyone else. Is this just the mentality they've developed from zoom school, or do they have a point? Are professors annoyed by people constantly grilling them on their subject?

TL;DR I ask more questions in class than anyone else I know. Do my professors secretly wish I would chill out and just let them go through the lesson plan? Would they prefer that I just googled stuff and left them alone?