Yes, I think we mostly agree, except for the "white lie of sorts" and the "never felt like an imposter anywhere" parts which could be true but I'm not sure abou

Yes, I think we mostly agree, except for the "white lie of sorts" and the "never felt like an imposter anywhere" parts which could be true but I'm not sure about (because I met bright people with imposter syndrome); but that was not your main point anyway, you were initially answering to 2-3-7-43-1807, who apparently didn't understand my initial comment (in which I never state anything about Terence Tao's imposter syndrome, who, no, I didn't know about, but that doesn't change anything about what I wrote).