Any confident aspies here?

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I am sufficiently confident in my intellectual abilities. I made my money doing software and applied mathematics.

ruveyn

Internally I'm not very confident, but I suppose to some people I can come across as confident because I am quick witted and tried to smile as much as I can. In reality though the smallest little knock down can send me into a complete meltdown.

Please elaborate.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

On a related note, am I the only aspie on the face of the Earth who would consider themselves to be extroverted by nature?

Don't look at me.

I can't really handle things as I am sure I have bad judgement.

I'm not only confident, I'm an unabashed optimist. It's possible that optimism is a coping mechanism of some sort for me.

And to the person who wonders if there are other extroverts out there, I've been called extroverted by others, but I don't know that it's really true. It may just look that way.

confidence and aspies should never be used in the same sentence. It's something I've struggled with and everytime I manage to build it up, it gets blown away.

I'm confident but I have autism.


For me too. Negativity just puts me into a deep hole of depression. I think my moods are just too intense. Anyway, what does negativity do for me? Our moods really affect our brain.
Oh and I'm an introvert so it's easier to just ignore people if they criticise me.
I still have my hard times but I make sure they don't destroy me.

I just love the above two replies.

As for me, I would have to say that I have a lot of confidence at times but am also stricken with doubt, insufficiency, distrust and disillusionment at other times when that should not really be the case. My confidence was forced upon me in a way though and did not come naturally. As unlikely as it may sound, I spent 18 years working as an engineer in the space program under circumstances that forced me to stick my neck out and to be downright bold in all that I did. The funny thing is that I was the Aspie who could do this while surrounded by an island full of NTs who all behaved like wimps. In effect my Aspie directness is what allowed me to stand above them while they played their petty little games and had nothing to show for it. They turned me into a bloody hero for it that I did not want to be and nobody ever did figure me out, including myself. I was incredibly lonely though (still am) and would have traded it all for one true friend.

I am in confident in who I am as a person, but I am not that confident in social situations and definatly not in public speaking, but I have accepted who I am: the gifted, the shortcomings, and the journey that I had to take to get here. I dont think that I will ever be great in crowds, dealing with ppl I dont know well and public speaking, but I am confident that it is just part of who I am.