why do NTs always seem so confident

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why do NTs always seem so confident ? are they really confident or are they just acting confident.

I think there is a reason con-men are called Confidence Men..

Well confidence is a line that is in both NT's and Aspies it cant be just defined to one or the other. I am an AS parent of 1 and I know that with age i have learnt to become Confident. Confidence can arrise in many things and areas. sometimes its just from having the knowlege to do something correctly. Like I am confident my spelling is not good but i still have the confidence to write in public (grammer nazi's go jump off a cliff).
Anyways Confidence for me begun as a single teenaged parent. If i made out or acted like i was intheoror or didnt have courage i would have been tranpled upon by society. It is important for everyone to believe in themselvesm their actions this is the stemming root of Confidence.
Dont get me wrong people can become over confident and thus make fools of themselves when nothing goes to plan. but this can be said for both aspies and NT's.

Confidence really has nothing to do with what species of human we are its an inner thing, one thing that must stem from inside oneself.

The confidence recipe is success.

It all starts with these small steps from the beginning.

The dynamic continues, and such folks build a network of social relationships with time, and are able to navigate a job loss in one way shape or form, as one example. These can successfully interface an interview well, via people experience, find a mate/friends, etc.

Having the knowledge and the ability to practice this, paves the way for success with the work place and the domestic front.

Bringing home the bacon.

This totally. Now I am stuck in a very tight place: being a good student plus going into med school in the future plus paving my way as a film actress. But I am sure I'll succeed. Find the balance.

Confidence comes from within, if you decide to be confident then it becomes true - or I think it does.

NT's put up a lot of masks to hide their lack of confidence, they're just as scared really.

They fake it and/or delude themselves into thinking they have stuff to be confident about.

They don't.

I think Mdyar nailed it. If you're able to 'work the system' with moderate or better success then you can build expectations of your future (employment/finances and personal relationships) with some degree of assuredness. In that case, you can reasonably feel that that things will usually work out and that the world is 'meant' for you (you're 'meant' to be a part of it), and that translates into comfort and confidence.

People do bluster and exaggerate a lot, also, though.

I think most NTs aren't as confident as they seem. They're just good at faking it. I have a friend who appears very confident and flirty around men, but she's actually insanely insecure and is diagnosed with general anxiety. It's strange. But when you get to know people, everyone has insecurities. Yay for being human.

I think that a lot of people who look confident aren't, some are scared inside but we don't notice (and they think we do).

Yep, that is so true. Nobody's perfect. People may seem like they're all the same when they're out in public, but when you actually get to know someone and go to their house and stuff then you will find out something odd about them because everybody has their own way of living. Some like to hoover every day, some don't bother to hoover at all. Some smoke in their house, others just smoke in a certain room, others go outside to smoke, and others don't smoke at all. Some go to bed really late and don't care for much sleep, others creep off to bed early. Some have a bath every night, others have a shower every morning.....everybody varies. But everybody has their own oddity in their homes. Like my friend draws all her curtains when she goes out and puts a peg between them to keep them together because she's paranoid of people seeing in. Before I went to her house, I never thought she was like that, I always thought she was more....(whatever the opposite of ''paranoid'' is) than that.

As for confidence, people just have that social knack what seems like confidence to Aspies but probably isn't really when it comes down to it. An introverted person can still have conversations appropriately but can still be introverted and even unconfident. But don't forget, the majority of NTs have that social knack built in them, whether they like socialising or not. My mum is NT but loathes socialising, and gets all anxious and worked up when she's invited to a party or a wedding or some other social gathering, but feels guilty if she doesn't go, so she tries to pluck up the courage to go, and always says, ''I've got to endure this social gathering'', which literally makes me laugh because I know exactly how she feels! But when she's actually there, she can have normal conversations and do and say all the appropriate things and not look odd or anything, whereas I can't even do that at social gatherings. I just stay completely mute the whole time and can't have conversations with anyone unless I know someone really well and I'm comfortable with. Otherwise, I just don't know what to say to anyone. The right words don't come out, and so I just end up saying ''oh'' and ''yes'' and ''no'' and other short words like that. Once I was somewhere (can't remember where or when) and I was really, really shy, and someone asked me if I wanted a drink, and I shook my head - then realised I should have one because my mouth was dry, so I then nodded, but the person was so wrapped up in socialising that she didn't see me nod and just said, ''OK'', and turned around to talk to a crowd of people. I felt so silly after that, and hated myself for being so shy.

I don't think all NTs are confident. If that were the case, the staff meetings I went to were attended mainly by non-NTs and I know that's not the case. There were only a couple who weren't frightened to talk.

On the other hand, I appear very confident, when I'm anything but. I don't intentionally fake it, it's just the impression people get of me. It's the complete opposite of what's actually going on in my head.

Confidence isn't an NT thing, strictly, and not all NTs are confident.