this is a message to all u haters

Hi I'm Michelle, I'm 18, and I think goats are very important and should be protected at all costs I'm a lot cool and funnier on the internet i swear instagram / twitter / last.fm ((scroll to the bottom for page navigation)) ppl

[hbunot]

Do you ever just randomly want to cry for no reason or is that just me

[theunquietworld]

if anyone is curious how I’m utilizing my English degree in the office

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

this post makes me so happy.

[folktaylor]

me? being someone’s type? unrealistic

[luxjii]

[basiadziadosz]

[goldenpaint]

i hope you find someone that matches your capacity to love

[noelbadgespugh]

ink & watercolor 🔥

[bertieandluv]

[wickedhawtwexler]

my life: a summary

[mojav]

Wtf people actually tell their crushes they like them??????

[lunaimer]

What the hell do YOU do?

[mojav]

i die? lmao what kinda question….

[senatorgana]

mood

[meemalee-deactivated20180104]

THIS.

[mjalti]

anytime someone checks in w/ me to make sure I’m ok, half of me is really grateful and the other half is berating myself for being so dramatic that a separate physical entity had to stop the process of their life just to make sure my bricks were still up in a wall

[slicedpear-a-deactivated2018081]

[mermithid]

I see your “romantic relationships shouldn’t be more important than platonic relationships” and raise you “romantic relationships shouldn’t be rooted in anything but strong, healthy, and mutually rewarding friendships anyways”

[mermithid]

i haven’t stopped seeing notes for this since I posted it and I just wanna reiterate: it’s really important that you don’t get romantically involved with people you can’t be friends with. Separating a romantic relationship from a platonic context is unhealthy. Your romantic partner/s should always be your friend/s.

[planethelium-deactivated2017092]

reddit is bad. tumblr is bad. twitter is bad. only perfect place on the internet is the old friends senior dog sanctuary facebook page

[hmwhatthehell]

do u ever feel like you’ve accidentally tricked certain people into thinking you are smarter and have more potential than you actually do and do you ever think about how disappointed they’ll be when you inevitably crash and burn

[legacysam]

Fun fact: Impostor Syndrome is ridiculously common among high-achievers, particularly women. If you identify with this post, odds are pretty good that you’re exactly as smart as people think you are, and the failure you’re afraid of isn’t inevitable at all.

[masrekaya]

Even Maya Angelou stated, “I have written 11 books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.’”

and don’t forget this is one of the psychological barriers placed in by thousands years of patriarchy and male supremacy.

[elusianknight]

My computer science professor actually talked about this on the first day, it was really cool.

[vassraptor]

Fun brutal fact: in addition to the existence of imposter syndrome, being “twice exceptional” (also known as 2e) is also a thing. That means being intellectually gifted AND ALSO having a disability that affects your ability to succeed at study or work. Such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc etc etc. A lot of people believe that it’s not possible to be both, but it very much is.

Society tends to have very high expectations for how well gifted people will perform. Society tends to have low expectations for how well disabled people will perform. Society tends to attribute invisible disabilities, including mental illness, to a failure of willpower or effort or a bad attitude.

So if you read this post and went “no, but seriously, this is not just low self esteem on my part, people keep thinking I’m smart and then I keep crashing and burning and disappointing them and they can’t understand why I didn’t live up to their expectations, it happens again and again and when I tell someone how I feel and ask for help, they just tell me to stop being so hard on myself and that I’ll succeed if I have more self-confidence,” it is not just you.

(Also, one of the previous posts in this thread buried the lede a little. Imposter syndrome is ridiculously common in people from underrepresented groups in academia and other high pressure/high status fields, particularly women and people of colour. Maya Angelou did not only feel out of place because she was a woman.)

[cypr1anlatew00d]

This essay also totally changed my view on the intersection of impostor syndrome and mental illness.

[gildunofficial]

“Even when I was on a psychiatric ward, I felt I was not really depressed – I was only simulating the condition in order to avoid work, or in the infernally paradoxical logic of depression, I was simulating it in order to conceal the fact that I was not capable of working,”