Samantha Faust

How to Be Unapologetically You When You're Experiencing Imposter Syndrome

As a child, I was considered “bright for my age” (whatever that means?) – one of those kids that always wins the spelling bee, rarely gets a question wrong on a test, and somehow becomes the teacher’s assistant and has bestowed upon her the job of grading fellow students’ math tests (side note: this is weird, right?). It was like this through all three of the middle schools I attended as well as through high school until I reached university and was quite literally surrounded with what felt like 11,000 replicas of myself. Feeling inadequate went from being a shock to being a daily occurrence.