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0 pointsluckydata1y ago0 comments

Because impostor syndrome was a term supposed to describe a medical phenomenon that proved not to exist. Around my parts we call that "bullshit".

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And it was adopted to mean what we all know it means. The origin may be completely wrong but it got a meaning that is not too far off.

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0 pointsluckydata1y ago0 comments

Because impostor syndrome was a term supposed to describe a medical phenomenon that proved not to exist. Around my parts we call that "bullshit".

And it was adopted to mean what we all know it means. The origin may be completely wrong but it got a meaning that is not too far off.

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