[tehwalrus]

I (male) had exactly the same experience when I started at a software company straight out of a Physics degree (only breif experience in Fortran..) I was asserting to (someone senior, can't remember meaningless job titles) that I was "not really a developer yet," and he told me off - "you sit at a desk and do developer-y things all day!" At that point, I got over the label, and when I left 2.5 years later I noticed I had put "developer" on my twitter profile - clearly my brain had accepted it by then!