Being preceived as arrogant

[Shannon]

It isn't just arrogance. High self esteem is very threatening to people with less self esteem than they perceive you to have in a lot of cases, and they attempt in a lot of cases to label you as arrogant so they can feel better about themselves, in effect excusing their lack of self esteem by trying to label yours as a negative trait that they don't want to have.

It could be genuine arrogance, but the ego balancing is in every stage of AM. So it may be that you're learning how to balance ego with humility still. Or it may be what I was talking about.