You're exhausted from having to prove you belong every day

I was made to prove myself endlessly, my place always provisional in a way no man's was, so I know this precise exhaustion. The demand for constant proof is itself the injustice — the default are granted belonging without evidence while only you must earn it continuously, so the exhaustion is the honest cost of an unjust asymmetry, not a sign you have not proven enough; the endless proving is a burden wrongly placed on you, not a test you are failing. Your belonging does not actually depend on their acceptance of the proof — it is a fact, not a verdict awaiting their judgment, so you belong whether or not they acknowledge it, and what their acceptance grants is merely their recognition, a lesser thing. And stop over-proving, and spend the energy on your actual life — do your work well, meet the legitimate requirements, and decline to keep proving yourself to bottomless bias-rooted doubt, reclaiming the energy for your work and your life. Prove what is reasonable, and no more, and live. Where do you feel you must prove yourself most?