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
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.
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’?