I Calmed My Imposter Syndrome with These Two Tricks

Having struggled with ADHD and ASD for my professional life, I strongly identify with this.

I'll go further and say I tried using "show them how smart you are" as a substitute for trust.

Even when I got over my arrogance and did this in a compassionate way to build others up instead of tearing them down, it never quite worked. I always had to put in at least 3x the effort of anyone else to keep the relationship stable.

I did learn to trust people too, but I was always explicit, never implicitly.

I think I "get it" now (about to turn 41), and I can start to allow myself to be implicitly vulnerable around people and begin to trust them implicitly, but I only learned this, this week so time will tell.

thanks so much for sharing your journey!

I cofounded my own startup. One year in, impostor syndrome totally cured! Now I just need to earn some money...

Starting a company will do that! There's no time to ruminate on whether you "ought" to be this or that when you're busy keeping the lights on and building out your product, etc.

i'm glad this is resonating with others. thanks for taking the time to read my our journey (still in-process of course)