"I've never heard a white man talk about impostor syndrome. I haven't met one."

[NNadir]

41. Both my youngest son and I, white men have experienced it.

I felt it often as a younger man.

With the deepest respect for Ms. Obama, a great American I disagree. I'm sure many people in her presence felt, but it's not something one expresses.

I recall my son's case very well, when after his freshman year he was sent to France on a NSF grant held by one of his professors, in part because he spoke French, and in part because a more advanced student declined to go.

I informed him when he expressed the point of being an imposter that he really didn't understand why he was there. It wasn't to make a scientific breakthrough on his own, but rather to see how international science works.

Many people feel like imposters when they are promoted to a higher level, particularly in new areas around people with lots of experience in a field. It takes a while to understand that it isn't unusual, even for those of us, white men, who are privileged by absurd convention.