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I always felt stupid as a kid and that led to imposter syndrome as an adult

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I always felt stupid as a kid and that led to imposter syndrome as an adult As a kid I was always left asking myself, why couldn’t I just learn like other kids? Why am I just so damn stupid? I could never pay attention to a single thing in class. Teachers would be going on with their lessons and my mind would be a running a million different places the whole time or I’d be daydreaming. They could even come up to me and explain something and I wouldn’t hang onto a single word. This continued throughout college. If I knew absences weren’t tracked I would always skip out on a lecture because I know it would be a waste of time for me anyways. I would try to keep myself engaged with taking notes but it never worked. So in every single class I was just hating myself because I could never focus in like other kids could and I felt a mix of stupidity, guilt, shame, whatever else But it’s not like I did bad in school. I wanted to do good. I got a 3.3 gpa in high school I think and then a 3.6 in college.…

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