When I assume things I know are common knowledge

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• DonZabu

  2011-08-15 21:00:36 edited 2011-08-15 21:00:46

  Technically, reverse hipster syndrome would be "if you know about it, then I probably don't know about it", if hipster syndrome is "if I know about it, then you probably don't know about it".

  
  

  /pedantics
• Central Avenue

  2011-08-15 21:00:38

  I do this too.
  
  I'm always taken aback, for instance, when I have to explain the difference between a U.S. Route and and Interstate to people who are older than me and have been driving for decades.
  
• Alkthash

  2011-08-16 10:12:10

  I'm a damn twisted person

  This is the bane of restaurant workers everywhere Malk. We think everybody knows as much about the menu as we do. So perfectly reasonable questions come off as unimmaginably stupid to us.
  
• FrodoGoofballCoTV

  2011-08-16 19:39:14 edited 2011-08-16 19:41:41

  @OP: I knew about Roger Corman, but not Suda 51 or Derrida (This Derrida?)

  I assume things I know are common knowledge

  Technically, reverse hipster syndrome would be "if you know about it, then I probably don't know about it", if hipster syndrome is "if I know about it, then you probably don't know about it".

  I tend to suffer from just plain never knowing which to expect.  My parents yell at me for "starting an explanation in the middle" and my professors yell at me for "wasting my time".  I suppose the only solution is to try to phrase things in a way that encourages people to ask if they don't know without insulting their intelligence.

   
• BlackHumor

  2011-08-16 19:47:58

  I know about Suda 51 and Derrida, but not Roger Corman.
  
  So there.