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

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.

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.

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

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.)

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

Thanks for adding race to this post cause too cause white supremacy has a whole lot to with this.

ah yes, as eloquent as ever, mr. wright

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Then I recommend checking out “Miss Disney”!

“Miss Disney combines editing contests with roleplays in a one-year long, annual editing contest. The contest is based as much upon storytelling and character development as raw editing skills. Each season has a new theme and location (previous examples include New York, Tartarus and Never Land).” - X

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Fact: bisexuals make up a majority of the LGBT population.

Fact: the majority of bisexuals are closeted.

Theory: If all bisexual people came out, straight people would no longer be the majority. 

Do we really make up a majority? Cause the way we’re erased i had no idea. Like really. I thought we were in minority…

The Human Rights Commission of San Francisco released a groundbreaking report on Bisexual Invisibility in 2010 which revealed that, even though only 28% of bisexuals are out (compared to 71% of lesbians and 77% of gay men.) bisexuals out-number gays and lesbians combined, Many studies have followed which verify this data. 

There’s also been several studies that have shown that a large percentage of millennials don’t consider themselves exclusively attracted to one gender

Whaaaaat.

I’m crying y’all…..

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/829562422528704512

faq on how to help

Official Standing Rock Sioux Tribe DAPL Donation Fund through PayPal

Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund

Volunteer to help Sacred Stone Camp if you have legal or media skills. Email [email protected], or phone 701-301-2238.

There’s still also the Veterans Stand group that is fundraising and working to help. Currently at 260k/500k goal (they need to reach the goal to maintain a presence and keep supplies flowing into the camps. They currently have boots on the ground right now helping build new infrastructure at the new camp being set up, as well as cleaning up the old).

And another group, RevolutionTruth,  is working to fund for a lawsuit that is currently at 9.5k/25k funded. (feel free to hear part of their arguments here)   

Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends student wrestler Mack Beggs and takes a stand against transphobia

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@lady-feral

Hey there. 

I need you to stop and read this for a second. 

My best friend and I are creating an app to help closeted LGBTQIA+ kids in abusive situations. 

The app is finished, and we plan on submitting it to the Technovation competition in April. 

But there’s one problem. 

We can’t get the app to help people if we don’t have the data. 

The competition states we must source our own data through a survey, and if we don’t get enough participants, we can’t submit or release the app until we prove that there’s a need for it. 

We already polled our school’s relatively small GSA, but that gave us biased answers that weren’t enough to successfully draw a conclusion. 

Please, take this survey. No matter your sexuality, gender, preference, race, or anything of that matter. We need data to make this work. 

More importantly, we need you to make this work. 

The difference between this app helping people, and sitting in a trash folder on my computer is the amount of data this survey collects. 

If you can, please help us out. 

Hey everyone, I took the survey and it literally takes less than a minute. This is a simple and easy way to help out the LGBTQIA+ community. Take it and reblog! - Casper

@autismserenity can you help boost this?

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#DisabledAndCute is the best thing on Twitter this week (and there’s been a LOT of stiff competition)

We’ve seen firsthand just how powerful, courageous, and badass differently abled people can be. And it looks like the rest of the internet is finally catching up. An array of Twitter users of different ages, races, and genders are showing up to strut their stuff, share their stories, and prove that their disabilities are just part of what makes them cute and fierce as heck.

don’t you fucking dare tell me that trump’s new travel ban is “keeping the bad people out” when the bad people are right here under our noses. 

Article links: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

“We have a voting problem in America. Voting in our country has never been easy, but there’s a new challenge: Politicians are now trying to stop Americans from voting because of who they are likely voting for in an election. Extreme voter suppression laws that disproportionally impact people based on their race or ethnicity, gender, age, or income have started popping up all over the country, and if we don’t fight back, more and more Americans will become disenfranchised.

Over the past decade, momentum has gone dangerously in the wrong direction. Jason Kander started Let America Vote to fight back against proposals across the country that make it harder for eligible voters to exercise their constitutional right to cast a ballot. Whether it’s extreme identification requirements, questionable purges of voter rolls, voter intimidation, new and extreme voter registration processes, or anything that makes voting harder, Let America Vote will be there to lead the way against it.

The full website for Let America Vote is coming soon. Until then, you can learn more here: http://bit.ly/2kOcWew”

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It’s too late for me to remember where I put the receipts for this, but IIRC more experiments + forced hysterectomies on women.

^^^ yeap… 

keep in mind Tuskegee happened at a HBCU and lasted 40 years (originally only planned to last 3 months) and the US knew of a ‘cure” penicillin. 

In Puerto Rico: oral birth control pills trials (with not full disclosure given to participants and some deaths during trials) more at PBS “The Puerto Rican Pill Trials“ this also happened in Haiti. 

My testimonio re: not celebrating the pill here. (tw: white folks don’t like my pov just see comments and this article was posted on other sites where white folks didn’t dig it either).

forced sterilization of PR women (we still have the highest rates of sterilization, read more about the 3 generations of sterilization (non-consensual and consensual) in her book, Matters of Choice, Iris Rodriguez who does qualitative work interviewing women in families, she also coined the phrase “agency within constraints” in her texts about this topic. this has happened with various women of color and women with disabilities throughout US history and currently. 

They experimented on Puerto Ricans in the Rockefeller center for years as well, illegally.

And yeah, the medical abuse of white supremacy extends much further than most realize. It’s as big of a industrial complex as the military or the prison system.

Hell they made penicillin by stealing a black woman’s DNA, a black woman who they never compensated and let die off after they stole the DNA.

Because white people don’t like to reblog the truth

“A 1965 survey of Puerto Rican residents found that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers, ages 20-49, were sterilized. To put this figure in context, women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico in the 1960s were more than 10 times more likely to be sterilized than women from the United States. These shocking findings suggested that systematic bias influenced the practice of sterilization, not just in Puerto Rico, but in the United States as well.

Since the United States assumed governance of Puerto Rico in 1898, population control had been a major effort. The United States, citing concerns that overpopulation of the island would lead to disastrous social and economic conditions, instituted public policies aimed at controlling the rapid growth of the population. The passage of Law 116 in 1937 signified the institutionalization of the population control program.”

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/forced-sterilization/

Join the Internet Coven

Okay so the other day I tweeted this: 

….And it turned out a lot of people did in fact want to be my covenmates! It was a nice time on twitter dot com. 

AND THEN, Kawaii Not tweeted THIS: 

And I was like: oh damn, this is too cool? Wow? 

…So we made THESE:

…And now they’re available online for sale. 

You can buy them at TrinAndTonic.com. 

Thank you, I really like this project.

May the wifi blow always at your back.

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