imposter
Original: imposter on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Patient (a man with red hair, lying on a couch): Doc, I need your help. I've got impostor syndrome.
Panel 2:
Patient: All the people around me are morons and losers! I try to fit in, but I'm just really smart and attractive, and I'm worried they're going to find out and not accept me.
Panel 3:
Doctor (a woman with gray hair and glasses, holding a notepad): That's not impostor syndrome. That's narcissism.
Patient: Dammit.
Panel 4:
Doctor (off-panel, speech bubble): I'm probably great at that too.
Votey:
Patient (head close-up): Sometimes I wonder if everyone else feels like me, but then I remember they're too stupid.
Patient (a man with red hair, lying on a couch): Doc, I need your help. I've got impostor syndrome.
Panel 2:
Patient: All the people around me are morons and losers! I try to fit in, but I'm just really smart and attractive, and I'm worried they're going to find out and not accept me.
Panel 3:
Doctor (a woman with gray hair and glasses, holding a notepad): That's not impostor syndrome. That's narcissism.
Patient: Dammit.
Panel 4:
Doctor (off-panel, speech bubble): I'm probably great at that too.
Votey:
Patient (head close-up): Sometimes I wonder if everyone else feels like me, but then I remember they're too stupid.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in a therapist's office. A red-haired man lies on a couch telling his gray-haired, bespectacled therapist, "Doc, I need your help. I've got impostor syndrome." He explains, "All the people around me are morons and losers! I try to fit in, but I'm just really smart and attractive, and I'm worried they're going to find out and not accept me." The therapist, holding a notepad, replies, "That's not impostor syndrome. That's narcissism." The man says, "Dammit." Then a speech bubble adds, "I'm probably great at that too." Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the man's smug face saying, "Sometimes I wonder if everyone else feels like me, but then I remember they're too stupid."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.