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The hazard for autodidacticism is not being aware of what you've missed: you don't know what you don't know.
Why is this specific to autodidacticism? I went through school and college without ever learning anything about the valuable content here on LW.
It's not specific to autodidacticism, just likely to be exacerbated by autodidacticism. The set of things you don't know you don't know is always a superset (usually a strict superset) of the set of things that you, your professors, your textbook authors, your curriculum designers, etc. all don't know you don't know.
Let's not confuse autodidacticism with not being systematic in one's studies. ("The hazard for" admits the interpretation that this property is merely prevalent, but also that it's natural.)