I Am Not Stupid

Can someone explain to me the urge to comment repeatedly on one's own haplessness, carelessness, clumsiness, etc etc?  It happens all the time in the blogs I read and I don't get it.

I mean, sure, sometimes I screw up, and once I get done being pissed at myself for being stupid it even occasionally makes a funny story¹.  But it's not exactly a staple of my blogging, you know?  But then you get the folks who are constantly making comments about "I'm such a spaz" or "I can't really do this, I'm just faking it" or "my completely lacking $ABILITY skills" or whatever.  What is up with that?  Is it just a bad case of imposter syndrome?  If so, why do so many of the really prolific bloggers do it?

I mean, no, I don't think one ought to spend all one's time talking about how fabulous one is.  But that doesn't mean I think one ought to start every announcement of failure or error with "Typically of me..." or words to that effect, either.

1: Viz. the "my neighbor's a Cooper" story from two Pennsics ago.

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