I think I read the other BI article to get a little insight on what the article was striving to achieve in its creation. It had 13 points, the 9 was listed under it. I remember you've brought this up before.

The 13 points article delved into how to shift either perception or empower to overcome such environments. I liked point 9. ""So even if you feel completely out of your league, it's important to at least fake some confidence. Otherwise, people will swoop in and take advantage.""

It is important to reclaim your sense of value to yourself to kind of put up a barrier between yourself and either these internalizations or individuals or both.

Do you have any supportive individuals in your life to bounce feedback off of? Maybe what rubs you wrong about a specific person also rubs someone else in your circle wrong too but they don't have opportunity to say so without your speaking up?