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🪩 Confidence Ick

Try-hards and show-offs. You see RIGHT through the act.

Your ick type is CONFIDENCE — the fake kind. Not actual confidence, which is attractive. We're talking about the performative, overcompensating, look-at-me-I'm-so-great energy that is IMMEDIATELY transparent to you. You have a radar for insecurity disguised as arrogance. The name-dropper? Ick. The person who has to be the loudest in the room? Ick. The one who can't let anyone else have a moment? MASSIVE ick. What you actually want is someone who's quietly sure of themselves — no performance, no audience needed. You're attracted to real confidence, the kind that doesn't need to announce itself. And you can spot the fake version from across the room.

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overconfidence triggers you because you can see the insecurity underneath it. and you resent that they don't bother hiding it as well as you do.

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