Hi everybody,
(NB: this is
a little introduction to the comic. You don’t really need to read it to
understand so,
if you’re lazy, just scroll to find the drawings! 😉 )
if you’re lazy, just scroll to find the drawings! 😉 )
It has been
a long time since I last made any comic. There are plenty of reasons: between
the thesis, the teachings and the publication projects outside the blog, it is
difficult to find time to draw!
But, most
of all, it’s often difficult to feel legitimate to talk about such or such
topic. And it’s even more difficult to do so in comic form, in particular
because of my lacks of “comics’ skills”.
Even after
5 years (!!!) of blogging, every blog post is a source of anxiety… Maybe I’m
saying bullshit? Do we understand properly? Is the drawing clear? What will
people think? Etc.
Many posts
have never been published, and even more dropped in the writing/drawing process.
The lack of time is often a real reason for not making sociological comics.
But, sometimes, it was also an excuse, a way to escape. A way to not produce a
comic book that I imagined, in anticipation, not good enough, not acceptable.
These
little torments are far from original. If you talk with any scientist, there is
great chance he or she starts to tell you about the impostor syndrome. It’s like every scientist suffers of it. As a
result, the question arises: if that
phenomenon is so widespread, wouldn't it be social/collective, rather than
psychological/individual?
The comic
below tries to provide some answers.
It is
incomplete, imperfect and probably one of the worst documented in the whole blog.
To be honest, I've been seeking a lot of excuses for not doing this comic for
the last three months.
But it is
also a subject that seems particularly important to me. Indeed, the impostor
syndrome seems over-used to trivialize some disturbing troubles among
scientists (as self-censorship, withdraw from the academic world, burn-out,
depression,…).
So here it
is: it's an imperfect, approximate, wobbly comic… but also perhaps the most
personal of all. I hope it will make sense to some of you.
Have a nice
reading !
NOP
(P.S.: Many
thanks to Mehdi Arfaoui, who patiently corrected the first translation I made.
Thank a lot! I think its best that way, if you knows what I means…).
