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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 22-10-2019

Oct 22, 2019 13:17

The reality behind the myth of Oxford's imposter syndrome(tags:Oxford academia mentalhealth )This is why you should never comment negatively on a friend's weight(tags:weight mentalhealth )Scientists Discover The Root Of Autoimmune Diseases - And How We Can Treat Them (in mice)(tags:immune_system microbiome mice viaMyBrotherHugh )Northern Ireland ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

woodpijn October 22 2019, 13:59:52 UTC

Yay, I really like that superhero story.

Re impostor syndrome: I continue to object to people taking a perfectly good and well-understood term and repurposing it to mean something else. Make up your own term instead! Repurposing an existing term is just confusing and makes future discourse unnecessarily difficult because people don't know which meaning is intended.
I wonder what these people (the author of this article and the author of the other impostor syndrome article you posted) make of privileged people who experience impostor syndrome. Do they just... not believe them?

andrewducker October 22 2019, 14:08:47 UTC

I don't think those people think they are doing that. I think they believe they are using the term correctly.

fub October 22 2019, 14:10:00 UTC

Wait... the unionists tried to stop a UK law from coming into effect in Northern Ireland...? That makes no sense to me -- wouldn't they want NI to follow all UK laws?

andrewducker October 22 2019, 15:20:03 UTC

Except for ones that give rights to women or LGBT people.