# Impersonating a user should allow me to go back to my user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/impersonating-a-user-should-allow-me-to-go-back-to-my-user/46762
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** impersonate
**Created:** [Juillet 3, 2016, 3:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/impersonating-a-user-should-allow-me-to-go-back-to-my-user/46762 "2016-07-03T03:46:57Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [Juillet 3, 2016, 4:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/impersonating-a-user-should-allow-me-to-go-back-to-my-user/46762/2 "2016-07-03T16:08:38Z")

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Not a bug. Impersonation is just a minimally viable feature:

> [@Add 'stop impersonating' link to user avatar dropdown when impersonating](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-stop-impersonating-link-to-user-avatar-dropdown-when-impersonating/13806):
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> As far as I’m aware, there is currently no way to ‘stop impersonating’ a user. In order to do this now, you have to log out, and then log back in as yourself. It’d be nice if there were a link to ‘stop impersonating’ the user in the user avatar dropdown menu: [image]

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