Confident or Arrogant?

[Withilt]

I am sometimes naturally confident, and I have suffered with a mental illness for many years now, which affects my interaction socially. So sometimes when I am feeling like I am not feeling confident enough to get through any social interaction, I will fake it until it feels natural. Fake it until you make it lol. And then I end up coming across as arrogant, because I have turned the dial up too much.

Then other times if I am feeling a little low, I will try to talk myself up - because they say that speaking of positive things - is a good way to generate the feeling of positivity within yourself. But then once again I do come off as arrogant.

What would you say about yourself? Are you confident, and come across as arrogant?

[stateofpsychosis]

this is probably an old post

but I too am mentally ill so i hear ya.

Schizophrenia here...   
i have a tendency to sound pretentious when I talk about music theory some times so I get that but I usually stop that pretty quick by throwing in a joke. Only reason I sound pretentious to begin with is when i get into the advanced music theory where there might be crazy terms like sub-dominant minor modal interchange so it's not on purpose, but people usually figure out pretty quick that I'm not like that since I'm open to learning and sharing information with anyone from any level. and that's the way to be

With your case, I guess the best thing to do would be to find an even medium?
sort of a humbled quiet confidence? I dunno..

I also wouldn't worry so much about what people think this much.
It's good to be aware of how you come across to people but in general
Just be yourself

[MusicallyInspired]

Judging from his sig, it looks like a bot.

[Collector]

Yeah, it a signature bot.

[stateofpsychosis]

oh that's a weird post for a bot to make

cool beans

[Collector]

It is an attempt to get past screening , but still have a spam link.