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When you return to school as an adult and feel like an imposter

I'm 34 and just started community college after dropping out of high school, and I feel like everyone can tell I don't belong here even though my grades are good.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between your authentic learning capacity and your internalized story of academic unworthiness creates a disorienting cognitive dissonance.

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