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When your achievements are questioned by your own family

I got into an elite university and my extended family keeps making comments about affirmative action, like my acceptance somehow doesn't count.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your success is being delegitimized by the very people whose approval you seek, creating a painful double bind around accomplishment.

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