A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge?

pr06lefs@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 54 points –

Is there a term for that phenomenon where someone gets so far into a topic that they become unaware of how much contextual knowledge they have about it?

Then they write some inscrutable technical docs, use unexplained acronyms, or tell a story about “he”, "she’ and/or “they” where you have no idea who they’re talking about.

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Relevant XKCD

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Relevant XKCD

Edit: is there no way to get a thumbnail to render this, can the image be found and linked to rather than page?

Edit2: can we get a bot that autoconverts links and stuff to this, people would just have to remember to input the image url not the page in which it appears

![relevant](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png)

*[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2501/)*

Use the format as given here without the backticks like this

  • uncommunicative/inarticulate
  • jargon
  • abstruse
  • overspecialized/hyperspecialized/overeducated
  • genius/crackpot/eccentric
  • ignorant (of their comparative knowledge to regular folks or other professionals who are noy)
  • lack of self-awareness
  • echo chamber
  • ivory tower (dweller)/
  • out of touch
  • élit(e|ist)
  • academic ;)
  • for talent: blindly gifted

I would say that someone is "in too deep" or something about "contextually saturated" or "contextually normalised".

There probably is an official term, but "bad communicator" also works.