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.
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
I see the image!
![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
Expecting short inferential distances https://www.readthesequences.com/Expecting-Short-Inferential-Distances
There probably is an official term, but “bad communicator” also works.
I would say that someone is “in too deep” or something about “contextually saturated” or “contextually normalised”.
My best guess is the curse of knowledge or curse of expertise: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/498010/lack-of-understanding-another-persons-lack-of-understanding
Incommunicado
‘not seeing the forest through the trees’?