overcompensate

“You have to start somewhere, and sometimes you have to overcompensate,” Al-Lazeez said.

Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make sense.

"If you did, you're likely to overcompensate."

If you have impostor syndrome, you might try to appear perfect: You may hold back suggestions at work because you aren’t sure that they are the very best ideas, you might try to overcompensate for a perceived deficit by pouring time into even insignificant projects, you might not ask for help because you don’t want to admit to needing assistance.

In her case, Hutchings emphasized that "I don't feel I tended to apologize or overcompensate because of being neurodivergent, but rather because neither myself nor those around me understood who I was or my internal operating system."