An autistic woman is the only person in the world whose negative self-talk is based in reality, said autistic woman has announced.
Beth Hapworth, 37, recognises that imposter syndrome is a thing – but has explained that she doesn’t have it, as she is, in fact, an imposter.
Hapworth said: “I’ve gone from strength to strength in my job as a neuroscientist, despite being objectively terrible at it.”
“The problem started when I somehow tricked a university into giving me a PhD,” Dr. Hapworth continued. “And I’ve been waiting to be exposed as a fraud ever since.”
Colleague, Dr. Megan Aldrich said: “Wait, what? How could she fool a whole department of other experts, scientific journals and peer review committees? Also I see her work every day and she’s great at it.”
Dr. Hapworth responded: “Megan’s just saying that to be nice,” before writing to the Nobel Prize committee to ask them to give her award to someone more deserving.
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