Fearing that you might say the wrong thing, you explain your research to your family the same way you would talk to your advisor. You don’t leave out any details and you ensure all of your terminology is correct. You dive into talking about all of the pathogenic variants of P53, BRCA1, and even BRCA2. Luckily you just had a committee meeting where you had to explain all this stuff to a new member last week.
After about twenty minutes, you notice a blank stare creep onto all of your family’s faces, you can’t tell if they’re understanding what you’re talking about, if they’re using all their mental capacity to follow, or if they’re blanking out and just waiting for you to quit talking.
What do you do?
Wait for some response from your family, they’re probably just processing