The Imposter Syndrome

Leslie Jamison who spoke at a Mockingbird Conference wrote about the history of imposter syndrome and how we all talking about it now. She says almost fifty years after its formulation the concept has achieved a level of cultural saturation that Clanson Iams never imagined Maya Angelou once said I've written eleven books but each time I think uh oh they're going to find out now. Neil Gaiman described his fear of being busted by the quote fraud police whom he imagined showing up at his door with a clipboard to tell him he had no right to live the life he was living. The phenomenon names an unspoken ongoing crisis arising from the gaps between these various versions of ourselves and designates