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definitely some cycle of abuse bullshit but i was often expected to "just know" or understand things the first time and now of course i've become the bitch who expects people to just know or understand things the first time because of the social chameleon-ism becoming more like social conditioning.
there's a studied phenomenon of expertise - as your understanding of a subject becomes deeper, you forget what it's like to be a beginner. this is a normal behavior that you just need to be aware of, and be mindful that everyone was a newbie once. even you.
explicit communication is inclusive communication. if you want newbies to become people who "just know", somebody's gotta teach them what they need to know. make that somebody be you.
yeah i'm trying to be more of a "you're one of today's lucky 10,000" kind of person
it just doesn't help that the behaviour was (not literally!) beaten into my head growing up for not understanding "basic" things as a literal child
I did get the lesson literally beat into me more than once. Small blessing it was never the head. I definitely understand the struggle to overcome those impulses. :)
True, same here