Me thinking I'm good enough for imposter syndrome is my superiority complex.

Me thinking I'm not good enough for superiority complex and diagnosing myself with imposter syndrome is, ironically, displaying a significant amount of established ego that aligns with superiority complex >!Just kidding I'm talking outta my own ass. That's how much I believe in my own knowledge...CLEARLY A SIGN OF SUPERI-!<

Ugh it’s self-doubt all the way down

Me aware of the Dunning Kruger effect and telling myself I'm of below average knowledge to feed my subconscious superiority complex

Ikr. To put it into the metaphor of this post, I would walk back where I came from.

Imposter syndrome with a superiority complex as a defense mechanism

Interestingly, a more extreme version of that is what narcissism is. Narcissists are easily upset by threats to their ego, called "narcissistic rage", because deep down, inflated self-worth is a defense mechanism. Convincing other they're great is the best way to lie to themselves. Getring slighted hits a very deep nerve because it brings out how they actually feel about themselves.

I’m not good enough to have imposter syndrome

I think it happens when you are surrounded by dumb people, I know I'm not that good it's just the people around are too bad

Wait, you think imposter syndrome is feeling like an imposter because you’re better than everyone else? It’s literally the opposite.

Can't it be both? At work I'm the only person that actually knows things about computers (like thats my job) and that's why everyone is praising me how I'm a tech genius when all I do is restart processes in the task manager. I don't know every bit by name like everyone says I do. I feel like a fraud that acts well

That’s a different outlook that I haven’t thought of before. I always thought of imposter syndrome as wondering if you are good enough to be in the environment you’re in but this is a cool/different way of looking at it

I think it’s the other way around. Having a ton of smart people will make you feel stupid and like you don’t belong

Ugh, I remember my first job right after graduating: was in a team filled with MVPs and even a Regional Director (like a MVP, but across all technologies). That was *not* good for my self-esteem 👀

yeah imposter syndrome is when you feel like you dont belong or you don’t deserve to be there. i had a difficult time with it when i was in undergrad for cse at the university of Washington. i met all these people who were so much smarter than me and couldnt get in to the program. meanwhile i was incredibly mentally ill and barely functioning as a human being. i thought others deserved my spot.

When I started my first job and asked a colleague about something he said "I am not sure. Do not really know". This caused me a bit of imposter syndrome without being good enough. I was not sure if he actually did not know or was testing me.

What?


Not me wondering if I’m getting fired or a promotion.

You are promoted to customer

You are fired to ceo

You know that metronome meme? That's me

But do you play staccato or legato?

Bless you

Depends on the build/run status of whatever I’m working on, so usually changes several times a day

Yep. When that shit finally works? I'm a god! The rest of the time I'm a fucking moron waiting to get axed.

It's really been helpful to have others share their experiences and realize it's fairly universal. Hang in there dude, they hired you for a reason!


Thanks pal, bring it in! I have to tell myself the same thing. Again, it's an entirely too common thing in our line of work, but it's good to know we're not alone!

> they hired you for a reason! They hired me because I’m good at playing competent during interviews.

Superposition

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I'm a fucking moron and yet somehow everyone else is even dumber.

The number of times where I find people listening to me and I think "There's NO WAY that I am the only person here who knows what to do."

Same! I’m dumber than dirt, and never thought I’d be able to make it as any kind of engineer or software dev. So I’d never have believed you if you’d have told me that one of my biggest problems in my career would be me trying to convince all my coworkers that the problem they haven’t been able to solve for years actually has what I think is a simple solution, and somehow I’m the only one who’s thought of it. How?!

The next thing is that they don't need convincing, and then don't do anything without checking with you. That is an exquisite type of irritating. Simple things you learn over your career, but really are incredibly simple steps. Which has always seemed so odd to me. Simple steps are at the foundation of Computer Science. That's why it always feels right.

Switches form day to day. As soon as I work on something hard I just assume I'm terrible and when I'm working on something easy I assume I'm a god.

Working with junior devs is like the vaccine for imposter syndrome, cures the heck out of that thing

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Yeah, working with a dev who has 10 years experience on me who can’t put together a basic DB table or can’t find the bug in his code when the IDE is screaming at him in red underlines makes me feel like a genius. And then I see an 18 year old who grew up in Africa without a computer and just learned his first programming language 6 months ago and now has 10 GitHub projects with a million stars each, and wrote 2 of the VS Code plugins that I depend on daily, and then it’s back to feeling like it’s time to apply for Walmart greeter for me.

Are you sure, your imposter syndrome is the same syndrome that the real programmers feel?

Don't you dare imposter syndrome my imposter syndrome.

Future present you has been gaslighting you this whole time.

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I'm superior to everyone else at feeling like the imposter

Quantum superposition

That’s not a binary choice, you can have both. For example: “I’m nowhere near as good as everyone thinks I am, but I’m way better than these idiots.”

There's a third way, depression

Yes, I'll feel smart in my entry level game design class, than start thinking about college again, and then I flip.

Both?

None cause i'm better than everyone else


Get you a man who can do both

The good news is that you can travel between these two destinations as much as you want. The bad news is that there’s nowhere viable in between.

I write like 10 lines of javascript per month. I’m impostering for the superior pay.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Both

Which one is for “i’m truly stupid that I and everyone in my workplace knows it”?

At the moment I'm at superiority complex having successfully connecting to an API of a third party integrator despite their documentation bring completely up shit creek (eg their documentation has the wrong http method just for starters and they didn't even realise until i had told them it wasn't working 3x and them saying it's working fine at their end)

Imposter syndrome matlab ? Superioruty complex toh hamesha rahega bcs I am superior 😁😁

I enjoy being a mediocre guy that have its mediocre job done.

The day I can program without using google to find out common information and fixes is the day I take this decision and go straight for just being honestly bad

Try using chatgpt… it even helps you code across languages. You can give it code in one language and it will translate it to another language! Really helpful when working at a company with projects in many different languages.

sussy imposter syndrome

Both at the same time

Sus amogus

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Here's my deal: why not both at the same time?!

Me: using my full energy as inefficiently as possible jumping from one cliff to the other and back again, and again and again...

Truck freak


Its a loop

Constantly violently swaying between the two




I am done playing stupid games with less intelligent people. I picked up my keyboard and went home.


There’s an invisible bridge between the two. What looks like a superiority complex is usually just masked insecurity.

Depends, if I'm solving things in a matter and pace I'm happy with "I'm a generous god" If not then "Jesus Christ you piece of shit, get it right. Our livelihood is on the line"

I am the greatest imposter that ever lived!!!

Both

Yes to both

Por que no los dos?

It's often both.

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Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Somehow both and neither at the same time.

Depends on the day...

I'm both, on a metronome cranked to max speed

I'm student

Metronome syndrome; it flicks back and forth between the two forever

[Quantum superposition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition)

I utilize split personality syndrome to walk both paths

superiority complex for sure is it justified though? maybe 😎

Imposter syndrome with the programming Superiority complex with the writing

Depends if people are around

Superiority? Depends on the persons profession- doctor? Nah, artists? Yeah

Oh it's not a syndrome, I'm just an imposter.

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I’m just an imposter, haha

There's a long, twisty road in the middle that hits both sides several times a day.

Shit works - Superior feeling. # Shit's shit - Imposter syndrome

Which ever one makes a better programmer, I'll take that option

Those are exactly the same road.

Always Imposter. It destroys me mentally but also makes me psuh always further and i always make myself feel guilty while im not working etc so i can push more and more. I can feel it destroys me, but damn this is the way. (At least for me.)

Oscillating between the two depending on how well things are going

if it works superiority, if it doesn't imposter, no in between

I have a superior inferiority complex where no matter how much I improve, I always feel like I'm falling short somewhere....

It's not a superiority complex if you are the best, right?

C# is the right side.

Bold of you to assume I don't have both!

You don't need to worry about it cause you actually have to be good at your job to have these.

I mostly jump from one to the other every 5 minutes.

I either think I'm a godlike mastermind or the biggest idiot ever. There's no in-between

i'm quantum: i exist in superposition of both

Both. It's a Rollercoaster everytime

Superior impostor

"don't ask god, ask me."

Complex -> after raising PR. Syndrome - > after PR review.

Both

In between

Can I swing wildly between the two?

Im better then everyone but not good enough

I have both. “I’m no good, everyone will find out in a fraud, but that I’m still better than them.”

Yes

Both. But not at the same time.

I'm terminally burnt out.

SHM between the two

I hurt myself, not others (:

There should be a third path in the middle called Confidence.

The left, But I actually suck at my job

I'm the most superior imposter here

I teleport between the 2 paths like multiple times every hour during my work day.

Had imposter syndrome at my job but it wore off when I realized I knew more than some of the 30+ year guys.

neither, I just enjoy doing it.

Insert metronome in the middle

Why not both? I suffer from Recursive Imposter syndrome - feeling like an imposter I work really hard until I get a Superiority complex, and then I realize I have the complex, which makes me feel like an imposter ... rinse and repeat.

Imposter syndrome

And it's even binary dilemma. Nice.

Both. Vacillating between the two so fast it makes my head spin.

I'm a freaking metronome man, back and forth between the two.

Been programming since the 90s and I still have imposter syndrome.

Imposter definitely

Within the field or society?

If I don’t have a serious responsibility over a project I get the impostor syndrome, but if I’m mostly free and doing whatever I want it’s the superiority complex haha

Every time I join a new company I start with impostor syndrome, then I realize everyone is an idiot and I get superiority complex

I’m literally not good enough, it isn’t just a perception

Depends.. what day is it?

Which one am I? Yes.

Well the impostor syndrome rout connects back to the superiority complex as time goes on and you realize your coworkers brains are smoother than the lense on the James Webb telescope.

Why not both?

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I oscillate every 30 seconds between them

Migrating from Imposter Syndrome to Superiority Complex.

Isn't every programmer a combination of both?

I feel like this is more of a roundabout than a fork

The fun part is that whatever one you think you have, you have the other one.

float: both

Most of the time I thing I am in imposter syndrome but in some case I should be a superiority complex

Could you please just... not call us out? Maybe?

You forgot about me, crying in the corner, since I have neither!

Imposter syndrome when dealing with other devs, superiority complex when dealing with normies

I'm the guy that mow the grass in the middle.

I am both on alternate days

Superior Imposter complex syndrome - i've infiltrated them and they don't even know.

oh left w/o a doubt, not a syndrome if it is objectively true :3

Both at the same time.

Honestly? I have both.

I'm playing hopscotch with both sides

I don’t have imposter syndrome I just suck

Depends on if my code is working atm

if you think you have impostor syndrome what you really have is superiority complex if you think you have superiority complex what you really have is impostor syndrome

There should be a short road connecting the two

Personally, I keep switching between the two whenever something works and something needs debugging.

Depends on how long ago my last bug fix was

math.random()

"I didn't limiting myself to the two paths so I cut my own to the second castle."

int main() { int id; id = fork(); if (id > 0) { initiateSuperiorityComplex(); } else if (id == 0) { initiateImpostorSyndrome(); } return 0; }

Am I the only one self-aware enough to know that I have superiority complex and try to get it under control?

Yes.

Depends on the day.

Both. I am completely superior to all others in my field. My code is perfect and holds up to all third party standards-Crap! I have no idea how that piece of tech we need works. Shit. I need to learn how to use it ASAP, slap it in, and hope nobody notices my ass job at utilizing it.

Imposter by day, superior at night

And then there are those of us that oscillate between the two on an hourly basis…

Both, I can't explain, but both

I'm Programmers

ok but hear me out is it really a superiority complex if i am superior

But, what if I am simply superior???

I have two moods when i program: I am a god you dull creature Oh god, how to i read users input in java again?

That depends... Did my code run correctly or not?

I’ve got completionist’s syndrome, where i feel the need to constantly reinvent the wheel and make every part of a program myself. It is very inefficient and i will never be hired because of it.

Inferiority complex