Thread by @stem_girlz

Let’s talk #MyOriginalFailure for #FailureFriday

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When I was in middle school I wanted to be an astronaut, but was told women couldn’t be astronauts. #SallyRide was older than me but she didn’t let that stop her.

It stopped me.

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In HS I was the top student in every #math class I took til precalc. Didn't it was ok to have to work at being good at math. No adult recognized my potential and pushed me. I lost interest in spite of my math SAT score being higher than my verbal.
#Fear #PerfectionProblems
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In both high school and college, I tried physics, but felt stupid so I didn’t work hard to gain understanding of the #science. I stopped trying. I felt a flash of my old math excitement when I took a statistics class, but I already believed it wasn’t a path for me.
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I was less mature emotionally than I was intellectually which is a hard place to be when you need to fight societal stereotypes. It was expected I go to college but I was not expected to focus on a career. My job was to serve me until a man could take care of me. #Ugh

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After college, I began to develop the confidence that would have served me well ten years earlier. But I believed it was too late to alter the path I was on. I had a long, successful career in sales but always felt I’d missed something.

#NeverTooLate
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When I stumbled into writing novels with #STEM peer role models for girls, I found a creative side I didn’t know existed and—amazingly—my writing provided me a place to return to my early #STEM interests.

#LifeIsACircle #ReallyNeverTooLate
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