I’m sorry but you’re reaching, there really isn’t any evidence that suggests a lack of confidence. And ultimately it feels like you’re trying to fill the gap. Where as there is plenty of evidence of him being over confident to the point of hubris.

When you look at Auba he was dropped from the Spurs game in 2021 but that was the extent of it, and this was no different from how any other coach would behave to a disciplinary breach. But he was back in game after that

It was only when Auba got to the point where he couldn’t score in a brothel that Arteta went full no tolerance on him

And it’s quite likely that Arteta (wrongly in my view) considered Xhaka to be more use to him than Pepe in that Leeds game you cited….but even then Pepe wasn’t frozen out, and as much as I’m glad Xhaka is gone he was probably one of our best players that season (which probably illustrates how terrible that season was)

His body language as I said can be closed off and defensive, but I know people who are on the spectrum who have this kind of body language because they aren’t good at interacting with people. And we agree that Arteta isn’t good at interacting with people, where I disagree is the reason for it. I think it’s more that he sees people as expendable.

They often say the difference between men and women is that men are more interested in concepts and things, women are more interested in people. That’s definitely the case if you’re partly autistic (which generally tends to account more for males than females)