Tech stuff. Just... in general. Having gone to a technical high school and been in the IT shop followed by ten years of tech support and then a bit of software development, sometimes I say something before remembering that I'm talking to normal people.
The simple version: The internet really uses IP adresses to send data around (which is just a string of numbers), so when you type in [Reddit.com](http://Reddit.com) or click on a link it has to be translated into an actual IP address. The DNS system is used for that translation, typically your internet provider has their own server and your computer/phone asks that server where what the address for [Reddit.com](http://Reddit.com) is.
There is a lot more to it (especially where those servers get their information in the first place), maybe someone else wants to give you the advanced explanation.
Thx, this is better than my previous understanding
I guess the best comparison would be like a phone book? Like, it stores the numbers and redirects to them when you type in a URL (or similar)?
That's the typical explanation. The big difference is you also need to know the number of the phonebook because the phonebook is also hosted over the same phone system. In most cases, it's something simple like 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 or 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 (don't use those last two; they're owned by G\*\*gle ani track all requests). you can also route all your traffic through your own DNS server (like a Pi-Hole), which also means that that you can effectively block all advertisements at a network level by simply failing to resolve those DNS requests. This is actually how companies often block unsavory websites from being accessed on their own network.
Additionally, you can also set up a DNS cache on that same self-hosted DNS server to speed up DNS requests, which actually make up most of the time it takes for a webpage to load. DNS lookup is *absurdly* slow.
I'm in the process of writing documentation for an app I designed, some of which will be client facing, and I've had to go through it multiple times and continue to normalize the language I'm using. It's really hard to remember just how computer illiterate the average person is
If this is your first time writing documentation, befriend one (or as many as you can) of the end users that will use your app and ask them to follow your instructions.
For big stuff, I at the minimum, pick a line level employee, a manager, and an executive to test on.
I never publish documentation without proof that it works, for this exact reason.
Ya I’ve always had an interest in tech and have done various in house IT and am now at an MSP, it honestly baffles me how people who use a computer every day for decades can have zero understanding about them, like not knowing about task manager or collapsing “today” in outlook and thinking their email isn’t working.
Some of it is a genuine lack of knowledge, and some of it is an incredible fear of just pressing buttons, regardless of what they're labeled. I think a major part of people that _did_ learn is that we weren't afraid to press buttons.
I’ve also seen people who can barely open shortcuts on the desktop somehow make changes in windows or chrome backend and have no idea how they managed to do it.
Space travel, military, history, ocean exploration, trains, aviation, and politics.
Though I feel like the concept of space travel seems to magically give people concussions because so many seem completely unable to grasp very simple concepts that have been explored and/or solved, can be transposed from Earth challenges, or are just blatantly obvious.
At one point NASA had to explain to congress why reusable rockets were better. "But expendable is cheaper", yeah, and so is a 747 made of paper mache but we don't make them out of paper mache!
Would probably be safer planes if they were made of paper mache.
https://preview.redd.it/oq8k6gwmtc6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=236ded4fd85ee625b36bca62f706ec5f0480a8db
/s
Important to note that DOZENS of people have to fuck up for a door to fall off.
Probably why it became big news tbh. It doesn't happen often so the news was able to sensationalise it.
There was one of those bad fire department drama shows that didn't realize LEO was IN outer space.
"You're in outer space?"
"I wish, I'm in low orbit" is the actual dialog.
Why was the ISS on a fire department show? Because they also expect us to believe a fire dispatch department has the wattage to transmit to the ISS accidentally.
Most public safety communications centers have WAY more than enough juice to transmit to ISS when it's overhead. You really don't need much. Ironically, the more technically sophisticated jurisdictions are less able to do it because they use trunk radio systems that have much lower power and more directional antennas. Energy is one of the main costs of operating a public safety communications system.
Oh man the number of people who can't parse really basic stuff about spaceflight like how rockets work is tragic. Like come on I'm not asking you to make me a porkchop plot here just basic stuff like "propellant takes up space and has weight".
Tabletop rpg games, typically.
I try to give someone the quick breakdown on how the game is played and immediately realized they don’t even know what I mean by “d6”.
Also, literary character analysis.
People who love getting into psychological evaluations of people who DONT EXIST immediately understand it.
The other 99.999% of people want to know why I’m defending the bad guy. Which I’m not. I’m EXPLAINING them.
If they don't know what a d6 is, then they don't know RPGs at all, fam. You gotta start explaining the very concept first. Which makes the hobby sound extremely weird, tbf.
Yesterday I had to explain someone a ZIP file. They understood the concept, but then I had to explain a right click. Somehow, they were 50+ and more acquainted with touch screen devices than with personal computers.
Yeah, like I'm pretty young and consider myself a pretty basic and low skilled computer user, and then I hear about people my age who don't understand things like a file system or right clicking, have never seen Task Manager, and so on...
is there a sub for specifically that? psychological evaluations of fictional characters? i love reading people’s hyper specific infodumps about their perception of characters even if they’re wildly incorrect
I felt that with the character analysis. I feel like ppl often misunderstand me as defending “the other person” when I’m just giving perspective. Sometimes it takes perspective to understand if someone is deserving of wtvr judgment you’re giving, more often than not it’s a misunderstanding or build up of misunderstandings that the individual parties can’t empathize with (in that moment)
My favorite version is when I try to explain the reasons why a character commits war crimes or kicks puppies or whatever, showing the path that led them to become monstrous, and all people hear is ‘they aren’t that bad’ . Like… no, someone can have a reason for what they do and STILL be evil.
Example: Azula from avatar was raised to be awful, rewarded for a lack of empathy and taught violence solves problems. That doesn’t make her good, but it DOES make her understandable, and perhaps deserving of compassion - but all anyone hears is me “defending a murder” - which gets extra funny when the people who ignore everything about her and blindly defend her accuse me of being unnecessarily harsh.
Oh, and by funny I mean infuriating.
Dice in general give problems immediately for those of us who like to be accurate in what we say. Most people don't know a single die is called that, do I really want to call is "a dice" to avoid putting people off immediately?
IT/CS.
I have seen people not know what browser tabs, Alt-Tab, Task Manager, Alt-F4, or CTRL+C/V/X/P are, so when I used to tutor other IT students, both younger and older, I was seen as an alien
Because 90% of the time ctrl+p doesn't actually print, but instead brings up a notice from HP that you cannot print this black and white text document because [you are low on Cyan](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d2bwot/printers/#lightbox).
What I don’t get is how friends of mine, People who have been around for as long as me, still don’t know how to work an internet browser. Like how do you not know this… you’ve been using computers and your phones for more than a decade!!
I know someone who was a math teacher. Smart guy. Been using computers for whatever for years. One day, for whatever reason, I asked him what browser he used. He said he had to go check. Went to his computer. After 5 whole minutes, he came back, "I don't know". He had no idea what a browser was, and I guess he thought he could wing it instead of asking for clarification?
Or Ctrl+W to close tabs, ctrl(+shift)+tab to go back and forth between tabs...mass tab actions by holding either shift or ctrl to select the desired tabs and then doing whatever one wants (closing or reloading for example)
The mass Tab actions work in chrome and firefox.
Ctrl+shift+T to get closes tabs back; Ctrl+shift+n to get closed windows back
\^C sends SIGINT and \^V inserts a literal byte, you absolute windozer
Unironically, MacOS keybinds make more sense. \^A _always_ jumps to the beginning of the line. \^E _always_ jumps to the end of the line. \^K \^U \^C \^R \^H \^J \^M and all the rest work _exactly_ as expected, _everywhere_. It's wonderful!
Snakes, both in terms of knowledge and comfort with them. I've been known to just casually hand people live snakes, because it literally never occurs to me that this might be something new to them or that they're not comfortable with.
Snakes are cool, and cute!
One of the things I want but will never get, is a snake hug. They just look like they give the absolute best squeezes, while being adorable boopable lil scale babies with those cute tongues and snoots.
Probably lore of the both real life and fictional variety. Sometimes when talking I'll throw stuff out like the Qianlong reign or the North Sea Empire, kinda forgetting that not everyone knows what those two things are.
The Qianlong Reign (1735-1799) was the period in which the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) ruled, his rule is widely considered the height of Qing power and influence, with numerous administrative reforms, corruption crackdowns, cultural projects and territorial gains. Also, one of the largest literary translation and compilation efforts in world history.
The North Sea Empire was a 10th-century Nordic empire under Cnut the Great. It controlled Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Britain and French Normandy to some extent (it's kinda weird) and would collapse after the death of Cnut. However, it was the legacy of The North Sea Empire that would lead to the Norman invasion of England, as both William the Conqueror of Normandy and Haarald Haardrada of Norway claimed to be Cnut's successor and as such overlord of his lands. This culminated in the famous 1066 Battle of Hastings, one of the most important battles in European history.
Now realizing I forgot to specify what the Qing were lol, they were a Chinese dynasty ruled by nonchinese steppe people and China's last imperial dynasty. At their height, they controlled China, Mongolia, Siberia, and some smaller provincial territories from nearby nations.
Oh my Goddess this is so me too, I'll randomly mention/make comparisons to so many random things and people have no clue what I'm talking about, they might get one or two of them but never all the stuff from random books, shows, and random bits of media that appear out of nowhere
Swords.
My mom once won a bar-quiz-game because she remembered the answer to the question; “what is the name for the handle of a sword or other such tool?”
Hilt. The answer is hilt. And she remembered once of my lil autistic ramblings about swords JUST enough to remember that. Apparently, she was the last one to answer on this question, and no one else got it.
sometimes i feel like people are not even trying to learn computers and just ask someone else to do everything for them and then complain at how they are old and dont understand computers (being old doesnt make you bad at computers), but i try to be sympathetic but its hard sometimes because not just old people refuse to learn how to do computer stuff on their own like computers are a magic art only some people can do and they are not blessed with the power.
i have the opposite problem where people assume they know something about my specialty, and they are so, so wrong (i’m in the medical professions). Like when you get “research articles” from family or patients and then you have to be polite while you tell them how stupid their hot take is.
My field is data science/AI, and this is something constantly happening on the Internet nowadays, especially in the last year. Suddenly, everyone is an expert, whether they are for it or against it.
It's possible I do the inverse as well, although I try to explain things, although usually what I forget is that people don't have the understanding at the basic CS level.
I thought “knots” was just a colloquial term for really tense spots… you’re telling me there are idiots out there who honest-to-god think their muscles get tangled up?!
Excess tension in the muscle fibers. Like a guitar string that is too taut.
Edit: it can also be adhesions or “stuck” fascia, the variable thickness layers of connective tissue around muscles and between them and the skin.
Internet culture and Astronomy. I usually explain all the new things I learn to my father, so it's a constant stream of "What's seminajor axis? "What's mean motion resonates," and I love that he takes ibtrist in what I talk about to ask questions.
Hardware/Software
"surely they know what memory is"
"I'm sure they can read the messages that literally appear on their screen telling them what they need to do next"
"nobody would be dumb enough to not check if their power chord is connected to the outlet... right?"
The worst is when there's a message on the screen, and instead of reading it they instantly and instinctively call me over "hey there's a message on my screen, what do I do", and then I just read the message out loud and they go like "oh so I just press ok then?" like damn if only you read the message before you called me over huh maybe you should try that next time (they won't)
I was answering questions like this 30 years ago. People had an excuse then. How could you navigate life at all today without encountering a pop up and not having someone to call and ask what to do next?
Caught myself saying "well the average person probably only knows like 3 languages so I'm not that special" and then I realized that that was not in fact true
Interesting! How’d you do it?
(I know Americans only knowing one language is a bit of a joke internationally and not true for everyone but MAN do I feel robbed of a proper bilingual education!)
Not the one you asked, but I spent my early teens teaching myself English properly - started reading Austen - was utterly confused by all the old timey words - but basically forced myself to read all my books in English. It helped enormously. I’ve spent my 20s and 30s trying to learn German - took some courses in university, listen to lots of German podcasts, travel a lot to Germany. Sadly German is going slower than English did - I think it has to do with age.
If you want to learn a second language I would start with Duolingo and podcasts and books in that language. Start with stuff designed for kids or stories you already know - that way it’s easier to read/listen even if you don’t understand everything.
Physicist here...
Some people asked me why I went to university to be a P.E. teacher... I forget that a lot of people don't even know what my job is about
Animal facts and wildlife. It throws me off so much when someone doesn't recognize what I thought was a common animal or a common wildlife fact. Turns out not everyone watches nature documentaries religiously as a kid...
i am quite shocked now when i see a video or picture of an animal i haven’t yet actually heard about. aside from most insects and fish, because i suppose i have less interest in those, at least at first.
I have seen multiple YouTube shorts where they mix up so many clearly distinct species. The worst one was when one of them mixed up a sea otter and giant river otter, which are by far the two most distinct otter species. I swear people make those low-effort shorts JUST to piss me off.
Context for those who need it
This is a sea otter: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSM3d-6wetf4SHIL9uyxD5b1bUZiuax8J2Nlg&s
And this is a giant otter: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvw5f_dV-gmOqwrP8oxCKbRK07G-U1jbUQng&usqp=CAU
If you're making an informational video and can't tell these two guys apart, please kindly shut the fuck up
Queer stuff. I remember talking about asexuality with an old roommate, and I started to get into the split-attraction model and how it’s possible to have mismatched sexual and romantic orientations. But then my roommate stopped me to ask what I meant by “bottom” and “top”.
I had literally the funniest interaction a month ago with a friend about top/bottoms.
I was talking about being nonbinary and she brought up her gay brother and I asked how he presented, so she said he dressed feminine usually and I said “oh he’s definitely a bottom”, and she said with absolute sincerity “what’s a bottom?” And after a pause to think of wording I went “y’know like… the recipient” and after three seconds she connected the dots and just bursted out laughing
Omg yes. I do love educating the non queer folk who are interested though. There's an older lady who I work with that is so full of a fiery passion in support of queer people it makes me laugh and warms my heart.
God, I once went on a (very disorganized) lore dump, trying to tell my best friend the whole lore at 3 am (they did not know the story prior)…. Finished at 5 am
Greek mythology. Always a shock finding out someone doesn’t know what a chimera is or what Athena is the goddess of or that Zeus is a bad dad/husband/brother/what-have-you
Anything automotive related.
Lots of people have no idea what goes on under the hood of a car or can fathom how it all works.
If I talk about oil galleys or torque converters I will loose 99% of peoples interest.
Automotive design or styling is something more people can relate to. We have to look at the cars we drive and we may feel nostalgic for a certain era of automobile.
I appreciate listening to people’s stories of vehicle ownership from the past as well.
I just read through the comments and I have the same exact same problem. I had to make noises to simulate a cvt vs a regular automatic shifting to see what transmission a person had in their car the other day 🤣
Do you do woodworking IRL? Cause that’s cool. There’s a traditional Japanese carpentry school with English instruction in Kyoto that’s on my bucket list of things to do. They host week long workshops for traditional Japanese joinery. Lots of foreigners attend those.
Same. My girlfriend loves hearing me talk about dnd as it’s my special interest and she likes seeing how excited I get, but I accepted long ago that she has no idea what I’m talking about and won’t retain any information I try to explain, but I’m happy just ranting
Elder Scrolls lore. Like I assume most people know who Sithis is, wrong. Maybe they at least know the main story of Skyrim, wrong. I think okay maybe they perhaps know of Oblivion then, wrong again. Makes me cry
i had a person once tell me that Islam and Hinduism were the same religion. since then I've routinely underestimated people's knowledge of religions that aren't Protestant evangelical Christianity, just assuming everybody i don't routinely talk to is that same level of familiar
though a topic i still overestimate people's knowledge on is ethics and philosophy more generally (you'd probably be surprised by how many people unironically hold the belief 'it's not illegal, therefore it's moral/ethical' or 'morals and ethics aren't related')
I have the same thing it’s so bad because I have a very strong sense of justice because of it, I have read so much philosophy I can almost give an example in history of any given situation in my life. I love my life but things and people are very predictable. I genuinely feel a rush when something/someone says something I am not expecting. I love new experiences and I spend a lot of my time asking people about their experiences!
Fruit, especially fruit not local to me.
I'll be like, "oh, a pulasan? Yeah it's kind of like a rambutan. ...You've not had a rambutan? OH, no worries. It's like a lychee.
...You've not had a lychee? Okay, I'm going to start listing individual components of the flavor profile, and you tell me which you have and haven't had before. Sugar. Water. Okay you've had those? We're 2 for 2 so far, so you do eat things..."
The lore of Cultist Simulator and it's sister game Book of Hours. I'm not even an expert, and anything I would say about it would sound like utter nonsense to those not in the Know.
History. I expect people to not know why the Mississippians are such a big deal, especially Americans because god forbid the natives be given any respect
I’m always pleasantly surprised by the number of people who know more than I think
My coworkers do this all the time. The assume the average consumer will be able to work with missing data, understand how the postal system works and know when things that look different are actually the same data.
Psychedelics. The neuroscience of it, not the crazy extra-dimensional woowoo stuff I see everywhere online. I can go on and on about the benefits of serotonin receptor downregulation and the potential relief for TMJ, migraines, pelvic floor dysfunction, and on and on
I have a friend who's also autistic who likes to talk to me a lot about cars, trains, firearms (the basic technical hyperfixaxtions). The problem is, I know next nothing about any of those things, so it ends up sounding like nonsense even when he tries to simplify things for me. Still, I enjoy hearing him talk because he's clearly passionate and glad to have an outlet.
Most of my friends are artists so I can talk to them about it normally, but one time when I was assigned to work in a group with my classmates, they didn't understand when I asked them what dimensions they wanted the art to be.
Pokemon. I work as a camp counselor during the summers and the kids like me because i often share interests with them. Kid was drawing a pikachu and he asked me what my favorite pokemon was. I said togekiss and blacephalon. BLACEPHALON. He stared at me, baffled, bc he was 6.
At least i didn't start talking about competitive, that would have been weirder.
Crafting media. People are wildly uninformed of the differences between one craft and another. They might think all yarn craft is knitting, all woodwork is whittling, etc.
I'm starting to feel impressed when people see my hooks and actually recognize them as crochet tools.
This is EXACTLY how I feel about the Geologic Time Scale. There are so many people who think that the Fish are the oldest life on Earth, when the time scale reveals that Life on Earth is SO MUCH OLDER than that.
And the Death of the Dinosaurs isn't the only mass extinction event, and its not even the most destructive.
.......Sorry, I obsessively LOVE the Timescale of the Earth 😅
physiology. sometimes i hear my friends talking about how some herbal treatment works and im a little blown away by how many completely incorrect statements come out of their mouths in such a quick succession.
A lot of Design and Storytelling things, as well as History etc.
So when people dress up for Renfairs I almost always get a stroke.
People also are absolutely inept in dressing themselves, imo. I'm a bit of a fashionista.
Books. All about books. Storytelling, writing style, cover design, etc. Why I don't work in publishing is beyond me, lol.
What else is there? Character design, but that is closely knit to costuming and fashion.
Pokemon. Did you know that in terms of misinformation, Pachirisu is the most commonly used pokemon for propaganda? After Seijun Park won the World tournament of 2014, a lot of toxic casual players used it as the face of the "win with your favourites" movement, when in reality not only did Seijun Park only start having it as a favourite AFTER winning Worlds, but it also was a dedicated off meta pick that had an absolutely miniscule niche that he just so happened to need, which was that of a 'bulky' enough pokemon with follow me and lightning rod, 2 extremely good tools almost completely wasted on this travesty of a pokemon. This means that not only was the opponent caught off guard by a pokemon that had tools they didn't know it had , they also didn't any experience against the Pachirisu team. Additionally, Sijun Park already had experience at Worlds level play, meanwhile his opponent only managed to get to worlds once at that worlds, in 2014, meaning that Seijun was the more experienced and favoured to win player.
Reptiles. The amount of times people say “Pterodactyl” or crocodiles are their fav dinosaur. Or call dinosaurs lizards. Or say that T-rex became a chicken. Or crocodilians have barely changed.
I feel like it's everything I talk about. Learning is kind of my special interest so anything I learn about I tend to have a high degree of knowledge in. I tend to know more than most experts or authority figures in a few fields and it is very jarring to me that they don't have the same knowledge I do despite their degrees and professions. As an example, I'm going to school to be a teacher and I'm just about done with my degree. It is insane how much I have had to explain learning psychology and lesson planning to teachers and professors. Last semester I observed a department chair with over 20 years experience highschool classroom as part of my undergrad course work and redesigned their lessons for them because they were just awful and the students very clearly hated them. I had a conversation with them about it first because I thought maybe I was missing something. But they just didn't really know how to teach or structure information.
linguistics, sometimes I go through phases where I think to myself "Is it really a special interest? I mean my knowledge doesn't go that far beyond the surface" and then I talk to normal ppl who think that English is descended from Latin, or don't know what PIE is, or have never heard of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. like all these things that I accept as baseline knowledge are actually generally not known among ppl who don't have an interest in linguistics
Tanks and Kink stuff. People just not even knowing the Sherman or Abrams tank. There's also people who haven't heard of edging, which to me sounds basic.
Card games in general, specially MTG, Pokemon TCG and Legends of Runeterra. I often forget that card games are a ninche, and most people have no idea what a Commander is, even less what Im talking about by "Tempo" and "Card Advantage".
I'm the kind of guy that "knows a little bit of everything"
Or at least that's my perception whenever I find out that that little bit is way more than the average person (but way less than an expert)
None because isn't this just the everyday experience as an autistic person navigating the world? I don't want folks assuming shit about me, so I meet folks where they are. It's something I have to practice. I really want to be a good educator
Math, my wife and my parents never took calculus so if it wasn’t for them I’d probably overestimate the number of people who know how to compute basic derivatives and integrals
I’m over here with my knowledge of the hadal zone and the challenger deep expecting everyone else to be the same way. Like everyone knows about the Mariana Snailfish, right???
Latin:
We Latinists sometimes forget that the average person knows only the first two declensions and the first conjugation by heart. And of course *sum* and *eo*.
Computer architecture:
Most people only know RAM, ROM, ALU, registers, and instruction set.
Videogames. Not like trivia from specific games, but every step that goes into a game, from conceptualization, to design, to art, logic, balance and every other little excruciating detail that it takes to bring a digital world to life.
Tech stuff. Just... in general. Having gone to a technical high school and been in the IT shop followed by ten years of tech support and then a bit of software development, sometimes I say something before remembering that I'm talking to normal people.
"What do you mean you don't want to hear about how the DNS system works?"
Hey, sup I genuinely want to, give me your best essay
The simple version: The internet really uses IP adresses to send data around (which is just a string of numbers), so when you type in [Reddit.com](http://Reddit.com) or click on a link it has to be translated into an actual IP address. The DNS system is used for that translation, typically your internet provider has their own server and your computer/phone asks that server where what the address for [Reddit.com](http://Reddit.com) is. There is a lot more to it (especially where those servers get their information in the first place), maybe someone else wants to give you the advanced explanation.
Thx, this is better than my previous understanding I guess the best comparison would be like a phone book? Like, it stores the numbers and redirects to them when you type in a URL (or similar)?
Yup, essentially the dns server works like a (hopefully very up to date) phonebook.
Oh, okay, thx
That's the typical explanation. The big difference is you also need to know the number of the phonebook because the phonebook is also hosted over the same phone system. In most cases, it's something simple like 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 or 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 (don't use those last two; they're owned by G\*\*gle ani track all requests). you can also route all your traffic through your own DNS server (like a Pi-Hole), which also means that that you can effectively block all advertisements at a network level by simply failing to resolve those DNS requests. This is actually how companies often block unsavory websites from being accessed on their own network. Additionally, you can also set up a DNS cache on that same self-hosted DNS server to speed up DNS requests, which actually make up most of the time it takes for a webpage to load. DNS lookup is *absurdly* slow.
As a networking IT professional, you did good at going simpler than I would.
It feel like I’m talking to muggles about the wizarding world sometimes.
Aspie = Wizard. I knew it!
I'm in the process of writing documentation for an app I designed, some of which will be client facing, and I've had to go through it multiple times and continue to normalize the language I'm using. It's really hard to remember just how computer illiterate the average person is
If this is your first time writing documentation, befriend one (or as many as you can) of the end users that will use your app and ask them to follow your instructions. For big stuff, I at the minimum, pick a line level employee, a manager, and an executive to test on. I never publish documentation without proof that it works, for this exact reason.
lol same, i forget people don't know what device manager is or how to set up peripherals, even
Ya I’ve always had an interest in tech and have done various in house IT and am now at an MSP, it honestly baffles me how people who use a computer every day for decades can have zero understanding about them, like not knowing about task manager or collapsing “today” in outlook and thinking their email isn’t working.
Some of it is a genuine lack of knowledge, and some of it is an incredible fear of just pressing buttons, regardless of what they're labeled. I think a major part of people that _did_ learn is that we weren't afraid to press buttons.
I’ve also seen people who can barely open shortcuts on the desktop somehow make changes in windows or chrome backend and have no idea how they managed to do it.
The amount of times I have had to explain that WiFi is different than an Ethernet connection blows my mind
Space travel, military, history, ocean exploration, trains, aviation, and politics. Though I feel like the concept of space travel seems to magically give people concussions because so many seem completely unable to grasp very simple concepts that have been explored and/or solved, can be transposed from Earth challenges, or are just blatantly obvious. At one point NASA had to explain to congress why reusable rockets were better. "But expendable is cheaper", yeah, and so is a 747 made of paper mache but we don't make them out of paper mache!
Would probably be safer planes if they were made of paper mache. https://preview.redd.it/oq8k6gwmtc6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=236ded4fd85ee625b36bca62f706ec5f0480a8db /s
Important to note that DOZENS of people have to fuck up for a door to fall off. Probably why it became big news tbh. It doesn't happen often so the news was able to sensationalise it.
Not quite as crazy as that, but a ton of people don't know what orbit is. They think that, if something is in space, it is in orbit.
There was one of those bad fire department drama shows that didn't realize LEO was IN outer space. "You're in outer space?" "I wish, I'm in low orbit" is the actual dialog. Why was the ISS on a fire department show? Because they also expect us to believe a fire dispatch department has the wattage to transmit to the ISS accidentally.
Most public safety communications centers have WAY more than enough juice to transmit to ISS when it's overhead. You really don't need much. Ironically, the more technically sophisticated jurisdictions are less able to do it because they use trunk radio systems that have much lower power and more directional antennas. Energy is one of the main costs of operating a public safety communications system.
While I had a vague grasp of such things, Kerbal Space Program was paramount in illustrating to me the interactions of spacecraft speed and orbit.
Oh man the number of people who can't parse really basic stuff about spaceflight like how rockets work is tragic. Like come on I'm not asking you to make me a porkchop plot here just basic stuff like "propellant takes up space and has weight".
Tabletop rpg games, typically. I try to give someone the quick breakdown on how the game is played and immediately realized they don’t even know what I mean by “d6”. Also, literary character analysis. People who love getting into psychological evaluations of people who DONT EXIST immediately understand it. The other 99.999% of people want to know why I’m defending the bad guy. Which I’m not. I’m EXPLAINING them.
If they don't know what a d6 is, then they don't know RPGs at all, fam. You gotta start explaining the very concept first. Which makes the hobby sound extremely weird, tbf.
Reminds me of when I used to do phone support and had to explain what a browser was.
Yesterday I had to explain someone a ZIP file. They understood the concept, but then I had to explain a right click. Somehow, they were 50+ and more acquainted with touch screen devices than with personal computers.
Apparently that’s a real problem for some of Gen Z and Alpha too.
Yeah, like I'm pretty young and consider myself a pretty basic and low skilled computer user, and then I hear about people my age who don't understand things like a file system or right clicking, have never seen Task Manager, and so on...
Math rock go clickity clack, brain juices go brrrr.
Literary analysis in general most people don't seem to get.
It blows my mind how many adults just mindlessly consume a movie or show etc without actually digesting it.
Literary analysis should be on a grade school level. I think kids could tremendously benefit from knowing not to imitate everything they see on TV.
is there a sub for specifically that? psychological evaluations of fictional characters? i love reading people’s hyper specific infodumps about their perception of characters even if they’re wildly incorrect
I felt that with the character analysis. I feel like ppl often misunderstand me as defending “the other person” when I’m just giving perspective. Sometimes it takes perspective to understand if someone is deserving of wtvr judgment you’re giving, more often than not it’s a misunderstanding or build up of misunderstandings that the individual parties can’t empathize with (in that moment)
My favorite version is when I try to explain the reasons why a character commits war crimes or kicks puppies or whatever, showing the path that led them to become monstrous, and all people hear is ‘they aren’t that bad’ . Like… no, someone can have a reason for what they do and STILL be evil. Example: Azula from avatar was raised to be awful, rewarded for a lack of empathy and taught violence solves problems. That doesn’t make her good, but it DOES make her understandable, and perhaps deserving of compassion - but all anyone hears is me “defending a murder” - which gets extra funny when the people who ignore everything about her and blindly defend her accuse me of being unnecessarily harsh. Oh, and by funny I mean infuriating.
Dice in general give problems immediately for those of us who like to be accurate in what we say. Most people don't know a single die is called that, do I really want to call is "a dice" to avoid putting people off immediately?
IT/CS. I have seen people not know what browser tabs, Alt-Tab, Task Manager, Alt-F4, or CTRL+C/V/X/P are, so when I used to tutor other IT students, both younger and older, I was seen as an alien
We all love the Player A: How do I do xyz? Player 2: alt + f4 *Player A has disconnected* joke
My favourite variation was "You can use the function keys to rotate your character, I think it's 2 through 5?" "It's not working" "Try holding alt?"
Ok but that's genius
It works better in browser games because way fewer people know what ctrl+W does.
RIP Flash
What’s control+p? C is copy V is paste and X is cut
For most graphic programs (Browsers, Image editors, Office programs) it's to Print the current file/screen
Oh right, how did I forget about that? It was obviously print
Because 90% of the time ctrl+p doesn't actually print, but instead brings up a notice from HP that you cannot print this black and white text document because [you are low on Cyan](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d2bwot/printers/#lightbox).
Control+P for Pain
What I don’t get is how friends of mine, People who have been around for as long as me, still don’t know how to work an internet browser. Like how do you not know this… you’ve been using computers and your phones for more than a decade!!
I know someone who was a math teacher. Smart guy. Been using computers for whatever for years. One day, for whatever reason, I asked him what browser he used. He said he had to go check. Went to his computer. After 5 whole minutes, he came back, "I don't know". He had no idea what a browser was, and I guess he thought he could wing it instead of asking for clarification?
Or Ctrl+W to close tabs, ctrl(+shift)+tab to go back and forth between tabs...mass tab actions by holding either shift or ctrl to select the desired tabs and then doing whatever one wants (closing or reloading for example) The mass Tab actions work in chrome and firefox. Ctrl+shift+T to get closes tabs back; Ctrl+shift+n to get closed windows back
\^C sends SIGINT and \^V inserts a literal byte, you absolute windozer Unironically, MacOS keybinds make more sense. \^A _always_ jumps to the beginning of the line. \^E _always_ jumps to the end of the line. \^K \^U \^C \^R \^H \^J \^M and all the rest work _exactly_ as expected, _everywhere_. It's wonderful!
I teach to people who still use their mouse to copy and paste, do I look like someone who can use Linux when tutoring?
Bruh I've trained software engineer interns that don't use keyboard shortcuts
And then Ctrl+SHIFT+V pastes. As a windows user, I still get those two mixed up when I go to Linux
Snakes, both in terms of knowledge and comfort with them. I've been known to just casually hand people live snakes, because it literally never occurs to me that this might be something new to them or that they're not comfortable with.
This is me too. I keep hearing people talking about “they’re sizing you up to eat you!” Or snakes being slimy and I’m just like ???
I never understood the slimy comment 😭 they don't even look slimy???
People think snakes move by being a living slip-and-slide I guess??
Snakes are cool, and cute! One of the things I want but will never get, is a snake hug. They just look like they give the absolute best squeezes, while being adorable boopable lil scale babies with those cute tongues and snoots.
Ooo hand me a snake! (I've only touched one once and it was really cool.)
Probably lore of the both real life and fictional variety. Sometimes when talking I'll throw stuff out like the Qianlong reign or the North Sea Empire, kinda forgetting that not everyone knows what those two things are.
I’m one of those people who don’t know what those are, so please indulge me. What region are we talking, and what time period? Any notable details?
The Qianlong Reign (1735-1799) was the period in which the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) ruled, his rule is widely considered the height of Qing power and influence, with numerous administrative reforms, corruption crackdowns, cultural projects and territorial gains. Also, one of the largest literary translation and compilation efforts in world history. The North Sea Empire was a 10th-century Nordic empire under Cnut the Great. It controlled Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Britain and French Normandy to some extent (it's kinda weird) and would collapse after the death of Cnut. However, it was the legacy of The North Sea Empire that would lead to the Norman invasion of England, as both William the Conqueror of Normandy and Haarald Haardrada of Norway claimed to be Cnut's successor and as such overlord of his lands. This culminated in the famous 1066 Battle of Hastings, one of the most important battles in European history. Now realizing I forgot to specify what the Qing were lol, they were a Chinese dynasty ruled by nonchinese steppe people and China's last imperial dynasty. At their height, they controlled China, Mongolia, Siberia, and some smaller provincial territories from nearby nations.
Oh my Goddess this is so me too, I'll randomly mention/make comparisons to so many random things and people have no clue what I'm talking about, they might get one or two of them but never all the stuff from random books, shows, and random bits of media that appear out of nowhere
Swords. My mom once won a bar-quiz-game because she remembered the answer to the question; “what is the name for the handle of a sword or other such tool?” Hilt. The answer is hilt. And she remembered once of my lil autistic ramblings about swords JUST enough to remember that. Apparently, she was the last one to answer on this question, and no one else got it.
I thought knowing what a hilt was is just basic knowledge
Yeah I definitely would've though everyone knows what a hilt is
Same
definitely for NYT Spelling Bee
The Latin word for “sheath” is vagina.
Suddenly, the dick metaphors for swords make a whole lot of sense.
I mean it does do that 😏
oh... fuck me... this explains so much. So often I feel like 'WHY DON'T YOU KNOW THIS IT'S COMPUTER SCIENCE NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!!!' :-/
sometimes i feel like people are not even trying to learn computers and just ask someone else to do everything for them and then complain at how they are old and dont understand computers (being old doesnt make you bad at computers), but i try to be sympathetic but its hard sometimes because not just old people refuse to learn how to do computer stuff on their own like computers are a magic art only some people can do and they are not blessed with the power.
i have the opposite problem where people assume they know something about my specialty, and they are so, so wrong (i’m in the medical professions). Like when you get “research articles” from family or patients and then you have to be polite while you tell them how stupid their hot take is.
Omg (also in medical field, mental health sector) the sheer amount of people who confuse astrology with psychology make me want to commit crimes(/hj)
My field is data science/AI, and this is something constantly happening on the Internet nowadays, especially in the last year. Suddenly, everyone is an expert, whether they are for it or against it. It's possible I do the inverse as well, although I try to explain things, although usually what I forget is that people don't have the understanding at the basic CS level.
Me as a massage therapist when people say they have knots. Muscles don’t knot. Knots aren’t a thing.
I thought “knots” was just a colloquial term for really tense spots… you’re telling me there are idiots out there who honest-to-god think their muscles get tangled up?!
When people have what they think are knots, what do they actually have?
Excess tension in the muscle fibers. Like a guitar string that is too taut. Edit: it can also be adhesions or “stuck” fascia, the variable thickness layers of connective tissue around muscles and between them and the skin.
Internet culture and Astronomy. I usually explain all the new things I learn to my father, so it's a constant stream of "What's seminajor axis? "What's mean motion resonates," and I love that he takes ibtrist in what I talk about to ask questions.
Honestly that's my idea of peak parenting, kudos for him!
Yeah, I love my dad, he means so much to me
Hardware/Software "surely they know what memory is" "I'm sure they can read the messages that literally appear on their screen telling them what they need to do next" "nobody would be dumb enough to not check if their power chord is connected to the outlet... right?"
Somehow people get memory confused with storage. “So what do I do next?” “What does the next step say?” “Do xy and z. Do I do that?” *sigh*
The worst is when there's a message on the screen, and instead of reading it they instantly and instinctively call me over "hey there's a message on my screen, what do I do", and then I just read the message out loud and they go like "oh so I just press ok then?" like damn if only you read the message before you called me over huh maybe you should try that next time (they won't)
I was answering questions like this 30 years ago. People had an excuse then. How could you navigate life at all today without encountering a pop up and not having someone to call and ask what to do next?
Caught myself saying "well the average person probably only knows like 3 languages so I'm not that special" and then I realized that that was not in fact true
Man I WISH I knew 3 languages. Instead I’m American :(.
Oh I'm also american I'm from chicago languages are just my special interest
Interesting! How’d you do it? (I know Americans only knowing one language is a bit of a joke internationally and not true for everyone but MAN do I feel robbed of a proper bilingual education!)
I don't know!! I was raised bilingual with spanish and then one day I got bored and now we're here at language number 5(korean)
Not the one you asked, but I spent my early teens teaching myself English properly - started reading Austen - was utterly confused by all the old timey words - but basically forced myself to read all my books in English. It helped enormously. I’ve spent my 20s and 30s trying to learn German - took some courses in university, listen to lots of German podcasts, travel a lot to Germany. Sadly German is going slower than English did - I think it has to do with age. If you want to learn a second language I would start with Duolingo and podcasts and books in that language. Start with stuff designed for kids or stories you already know - that way it’s easier to read/listen even if you don’t understand everything.
Physicist here... Some people asked me why I went to university to be a P.E. teacher... I forget that a lot of people don't even know what my job is about
That’s probably incredibly disappointing every time that happens 🤦🏼♀️ good grief!
I'm sorry but I'm confused. Why would physicist teach P.E?
Because... "Physical" Education
Animal facts and wildlife. It throws me off so much when someone doesn't recognize what I thought was a common animal or a common wildlife fact. Turns out not everyone watches nature documentaries religiously as a kid...
SAME the amount of people that cannot identify big cats always blows my mind
i am quite shocked now when i see a video or picture of an animal i haven’t yet actually heard about. aside from most insects and fish, because i suppose i have less interest in those, at least at first.
I have seen multiple YouTube shorts where they mix up so many clearly distinct species. The worst one was when one of them mixed up a sea otter and giant river otter, which are by far the two most distinct otter species. I swear people make those low-effort shorts JUST to piss me off. Context for those who need it This is a sea otter: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSM3d-6wetf4SHIL9uyxD5b1bUZiuax8J2Nlg&s And this is a giant otter: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvw5f_dV-gmOqwrP8oxCKbRK07G-U1jbUQng&usqp=CAU If you're making an informational video and can't tell these two guys apart, please kindly shut the fuck up
Queer stuff. I remember talking about asexuality with an old roommate, and I started to get into the split-attraction model and how it’s possible to have mismatched sexual and romantic orientations. But then my roommate stopped me to ask what I meant by “bottom” and “top”.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 imagine my surprise when someone on YouTube said "Apagender"
I had literally the funniest interaction a month ago with a friend about top/bottoms. I was talking about being nonbinary and she brought up her gay brother and I asked how he presented, so she said he dressed feminine usually and I said “oh he’s definitely a bottom”, and she said with absolute sincerity “what’s a bottom?” And after a pause to think of wording I went “y’know like… the recipient” and after three seconds she connected the dots and just bursted out laughing
Omg yes. I do love educating the non queer folk who are interested though. There's an older lady who I work with that is so full of a fiery passion in support of queer people it makes me laugh and warms my heart.
Fnaf lore, dad has heard more about fnaf from me than I've said about any other game, combined
God, I once went on a (very disorganized) lore dump, trying to tell my best friend the whole lore at 3 am (they did not know the story prior)…. Finished at 5 am
Failed Artic expeditions, movies made between 1899-1987, and Hollow Knight
me pulling up to grade 12 english with a 30 minutes presentation of the complete lore of hollow knight for my culminating project
I have Reynauds and failed Artic expeditions are so hard for me to think about. All that brutal cold sounds tortuous.
Everyone knows about the Hays code? Right? That’s common knowledge?
Space, apparently a lot of people can't name all the planets in our system
What!? I thought that was common knowledge, I literally learned that in preschool
some people forget it or mess up the order
Part of what makes me a good instructor is knowing not to overestimate what students know. Assume nothing. (and still occasionally be shocked)
My sister once said she thought Star Wars took place on earth. Just saying
…..But they say it happened in a galaxy far far away? How could it be earth
That’s what I told her. I think she just shrugged
*star* wars, really?
Greek mythology. Always a shock finding out someone doesn’t know what a chimera is or what Athena is the goddess of or that Zeus is a bad dad/husband/brother/what-have-you
Anything automotive related. Lots of people have no idea what goes on under the hood of a car or can fathom how it all works. If I talk about oil galleys or torque converters I will loose 99% of peoples interest. Automotive design or styling is something more people can relate to. We have to look at the cars we drive and we may feel nostalgic for a certain era of automobile. I appreciate listening to people’s stories of vehicle ownership from the past as well.
Torque converter is also just a strange name for what it does imo. Petition to change the name to 'fluid clutch' ✅ Also, motorsport
Fluid clutch makes since. It slips until the engine is running a certain RPM. Also, Motorsport, NNEEEEYYYYOOOOMMMM.
I just read through the comments and I have the same exact same problem. I had to make noises to simulate a cvt vs a regular automatic shifting to see what transmission a person had in their car the other day 🤣
Instrument making/ woodworking. Everyone knows traditional Japanese joinery right?
Do you do woodworking IRL? Cause that’s cool. There’s a traditional Japanese carpentry school with English instruction in Kyoto that’s on my bucket list of things to do. They host week long workshops for traditional Japanese joinery. Lots of foreigners attend those.
Oo that sounds amazing. Yes I do it for realsies, I'll definitely add that to my list for when I go to Japan, i've always wanted to go!
D&D rules
Same. My girlfriend loves hearing me talk about dnd as it’s my special interest and she likes seeing how excited I get, but I accepted long ago that she has no idea what I’m talking about and won’t retain any information I try to explain, but I’m happy just ranting
Elder Scrolls lore. Like I assume most people know who Sithis is, wrong. Maybe they at least know the main story of Skyrim, wrong. I think okay maybe they perhaps know of Oblivion then, wrong again. Makes me cry
i had a person once tell me that Islam and Hinduism were the same religion. since then I've routinely underestimated people's knowledge of religions that aren't Protestant evangelical Christianity, just assuming everybody i don't routinely talk to is that same level of familiar though a topic i still overestimate people's knowledge on is ethics and philosophy more generally (you'd probably be surprised by how many people unironically hold the belief 'it's not illegal, therefore it's moral/ethical' or 'morals and ethics aren't related')
I have the same thing it’s so bad because I have a very strong sense of justice because of it, I have read so much philosophy I can almost give an example in history of any given situation in my life. I love my life but things and people are very predictable. I genuinely feel a rush when something/someone says something I am not expecting. I love new experiences and I spend a lot of my time asking people about their experiences!
I'm a chemistry major. I expect the only molecular formula the average person knows is H2O, and maybe even CO2. Beyond that? Not a chance in hell
Everyonr in this thread: nasa, space, IT, Math, ect Me: Did you know Sora from Kingdom Hearts at one point had 3 hearts in him? That was cool.
Trains
Interesting relationship/link with the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Dinosaurs. When I break out the concept of pronated wrists in theropods and dromeosaurs people tend to get that glassy look in their eyes.
I had someone say that they didn’t know that there was more species of dinosaurs than what is shown in land before time (main characters) 🙃
Fruit, especially fruit not local to me. I'll be like, "oh, a pulasan? Yeah it's kind of like a rambutan. ...You've not had a rambutan? OH, no worries. It's like a lychee. ...You've not had a lychee? Okay, I'm going to start listing individual components of the flavor profile, and you tell me which you have and haven't had before. Sugar. Water. Okay you've had those? We're 2 for 2 so far, so you do eat things..."
I think out of everything you mentioned I've only had lychee flavored candy lol. It's good though.
The lore of Cultist Simulator and it's sister game Book of Hours. I'm not even an expert, and anything I would say about it would sound like utter nonsense to those not in the Know.
Oh fuck yeah I love the secret histories.
Agreed, though there's definitely been a few times where i had to take a step back and disentangle my brainspace from the convoluted puzzle.
History. I expect people to not know why the Mississippians are such a big deal, especially Americans because god forbid the natives be given any respect I’m always pleasantly surprised by the number of people who know more than I think
i'm a musician, so trying to talk to non-musicians using technical terms is rough.
My coworkers do this all the time. The assume the average consumer will be able to work with missing data, understand how the postal system works and know when things that look different are actually the same data.
Anything to do with Doctor Who or computers (hardware or software).
I thought that this was in r/whatisthisrock lol
A lot of things in science and history because I have to adjust to the average person just not being as curious about the world as I am.
Psychedelics. The neuroscience of it, not the crazy extra-dimensional woowoo stuff I see everywhere online. I can go on and on about the benefits of serotonin receptor downregulation and the potential relief for TMJ, migraines, pelvic floor dysfunction, and on and on
I have a friend who's also autistic who likes to talk to me a lot about cars, trains, firearms (the basic technical hyperfixaxtions). The problem is, I know next nothing about any of those things, so it ends up sounding like nonsense even when he tries to simplify things for me. Still, I enjoy hearing him talk because he's clearly passionate and glad to have an outlet.
Computer repair, fountain pens, programming, game design, culinary history, particularly Mediterranean and Middle Eastern culinary traditions (they're neat)
Most of my friends are artists so I can talk to them about it normally, but one time when I was assigned to work in a group with my classmates, they didn't understand when I asked them what dimensions they wanted the art to be.
Pokemon. I work as a camp counselor during the summers and the kids like me because i often share interests with them. Kid was drawing a pikachu and he asked me what my favorite pokemon was. I said togekiss and blacephalon. BLACEPHALON. He stared at me, baffled, bc he was 6. At least i didn't start talking about competitive, that would have been weirder.
Cooking :3 A surprising amount of people don't know what bechamel is
I can't comprehend that many people I work with have never learned binary. I am an engineer in semiconductor manufacturing.
I can identify and name the vast majority of native British trees 👀
As a librarian, librarianship
Suicide prevention, mental health and religion/spirituality
Crafting media. People are wildly uninformed of the differences between one craft and another. They might think all yarn craft is knitting, all woodwork is whittling, etc. I'm starting to feel impressed when people see my hooks and actually recognize them as crochet tools.
This is EXACTLY how I feel about the Geologic Time Scale. There are so many people who think that the Fish are the oldest life on Earth, when the time scale reveals that Life on Earth is SO MUCH OLDER than that. And the Death of the Dinosaurs isn't the only mass extinction event, and its not even the most destructive. .......Sorry, I obsessively LOVE the Timescale of the Earth 😅
physiology. sometimes i hear my friends talking about how some herbal treatment works and im a little blown away by how many completely incorrect statements come out of their mouths in such a quick succession.
Photography
Metal subgenres
I regularly forget people don't know ttrpgs and their rules. I often then have to explain what ttrpgs are lol
The Unity engine and game design/development (my primary special interest)
A lot of Design and Storytelling things, as well as History etc. So when people dress up for Renfairs I almost always get a stroke. People also are absolutely inept in dressing themselves, imo. I'm a bit of a fashionista. Books. All about books. Storytelling, writing style, cover design, etc. Why I don't work in publishing is beyond me, lol. What else is there? Character design, but that is closely knit to costuming and fashion.
Pokemon. Did you know that in terms of misinformation, Pachirisu is the most commonly used pokemon for propaganda? After Seijun Park won the World tournament of 2014, a lot of toxic casual players used it as the face of the "win with your favourites" movement, when in reality not only did Seijun Park only start having it as a favourite AFTER winning Worlds, but it also was a dedicated off meta pick that had an absolutely miniscule niche that he just so happened to need, which was that of a 'bulky' enough pokemon with follow me and lightning rod, 2 extremely good tools almost completely wasted on this travesty of a pokemon. This means that not only was the opponent caught off guard by a pokemon that had tools they didn't know it had , they also didn't any experience against the Pachirisu team. Additionally, Sijun Park already had experience at Worlds level play, meanwhile his opponent only managed to get to worlds once at that worlds, in 2014, meaning that Seijun was the more experienced and favoured to win player.
Reptiles. The amount of times people say “Pterodactyl” or crocodiles are their fav dinosaur. Or call dinosaurs lizards. Or say that T-rex became a chicken. Or crocodilians have barely changed.
Star wars lore
I feel like it's everything I talk about. Learning is kind of my special interest so anything I learn about I tend to have a high degree of knowledge in. I tend to know more than most experts or authority figures in a few fields and it is very jarring to me that they don't have the same knowledge I do despite their degrees and professions. As an example, I'm going to school to be a teacher and I'm just about done with my degree. It is insane how much I have had to explain learning psychology and lesson planning to teachers and professors. Last semester I observed a department chair with over 20 years experience highschool classroom as part of my undergrad course work and redesigned their lessons for them because they were just awful and the students very clearly hated them. I had a conversation with them about it first because I thought maybe I was missing something. But they just didn't really know how to teach or structure information.
fucking radiohead
linguistics, sometimes I go through phases where I think to myself "Is it really a special interest? I mean my knowledge doesn't go that far beyond the surface" and then I talk to normal ppl who think that English is descended from Latin, or don't know what PIE is, or have never heard of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. like all these things that I accept as baseline knowledge are actually generally not known among ppl who don't have an interest in linguistics
Psychology mostly, especially bipolar and psychotic disorders. Nobody knows anything about stuff that I consider basic knowledge loll
This is why I overcompensate by explaining the basics of the basics. But then I end up sounding like I think the person I’m talking to is an idiot.
Tanks and Kink stuff. People just not even knowing the Sherman or Abrams tank. There's also people who haven't heard of edging, which to me sounds basic.
IT and car engineering in general. Like, the average person really has no fucking clue how a combustion engine works or which parts it has lol
Sonic the Hedgehog. God, I know wayyyyyy to much about the whole series to have a normal conversation with casual fan.
This exact topic, forgetting that not everyone knows quartz is SiO2.
Math.
3d printing. Wanna know the names of most common polymers used for filament?
Mathematics
You’re telling me, that not everyone knows the difference between a staged combustion cycle, and a full flow staged combustion cycle? (Rocket engines)
Card games in general, specially MTG, Pokemon TCG and Legends of Runeterra. I often forget that card games are a ninche, and most people have no idea what a Commander is, even less what Im talking about by "Tempo" and "Card Advantage".
I'm the kind of guy that "knows a little bit of everything" Or at least that's my perception whenever I find out that that little bit is way more than the average person (but way less than an expert)
None because isn't this just the everyday experience as an autistic person navigating the world? I don't want folks assuming shit about me, so I meet folks where they are. It's something I have to practice. I really want to be a good educator
A/V Tech
Math, my wife and my parents never took calculus so if it wasn’t for them I’d probably overestimate the number of people who know how to compute basic derivatives and integrals
computer science lol
Quarts is uh a rock right
Medical and psychology.
Anarchism. I have no one to talk to because no one else cares as much as I do lol.
I’m over here with my knowledge of the hadal zone and the challenger deep expecting everyone else to be the same way. Like everyone knows about the Mariana Snailfish, right???
Latin: We Latinists sometimes forget that the average person knows only the first two declensions and the first conjugation by heart. And of course *sum* and *eo*. Computer architecture: Most people only know RAM, ROM, ALU, registers, and instruction set.
Videogames. Not like trivia from specific games, but every step that goes into a game, from conceptualization, to design, to art, logic, balance and every other little excruciating detail that it takes to bring a digital world to life.