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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    11 months ago

    relevant

    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

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      11 months ago

      ![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