Originally Posted by
Brilliand
1) Your supervisor sees you as better than him in so many ways, but vastly inferior in the most important way. He may try to fix you, to make you superhuman, or treat you as a worthy tool who can't be expected to know what it's being used for.
2) Once you have success, a healthy supervisor can acknowledge that the strengths you had were enough to have that success, even though you didn't have the "most important thing"... an unhealthy supervisor may see this as evidence that his base function is worthless, and either try to undermine that evidence or start to devalue himself.