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My Friend Says She Has Imposter Syndrome, Here’s My Response
She’s a woman of color but doesn’t think there is a correlation
6 min readSep 17, 2021
A couple of days ago, while I was at work, one of my friends sent me a message saying she thinks she has imposter syndrome.
I had read about it too, and so it intrigued me why she would think so. I did some more research (thanks Google) but the first result that shows up told me otherwise.
I decided to probe her a little to see if her observation was correct or misguided by what society had told her over the years as a result of her being a woman, and a woman of color at that.
We agreed that this case was more complicated than it seemed at the surface, and so we decided to discuss it over a phone call.
