Steef Oskarsson

Many gifted adults carry a strange, persistent feeling with them: the fear of being "found out."As if success was a fluke. As if any moment now, others will discover you're not as smart, capable, or sure of yourself as they think. The Gifted Impostor shows where that feeling comes from - and why it is so persistent in gifted people. It has little to do with failure, and everything to do with the years they spent learning to adapt, to dose themselves, to be a little smaller than they were.
This is no weakness - it is the logical result of a lifetime of fitting into a world that wasn't always built for you. No step-by-step plans, no surface positivity. What you will find: recognition, psychological depth, and words for experiences many gifted people carry quietly. About: impostor syndrome in giftedness perfectionism and masking adapting and losing yourself why more success doesn't take the feeling away the gap between who you are and what you show For gifted adults, late-recognised gifted adults, and anyone who has felt "different" for years without quite understanding why. Compact and direct: you can read this booklet in about 30 minutes (around 6, 000 words).