So tired of being told I'm good at stuff

I really am.

Am I overzealous? Or overbearing? Am I too much?

I work on projects, I get excited when people want me to help out. I ask them questions and propose new methods and want to help out and make any system I work on a great one. When I'm not met with the same amount of enthusiasm it kinda gets me down.

My friends working on a cool logging framework that's cross platform/language and its pretty cool. He invited me to work on it with him, and I proposed a system to help seperate each language and stuff from each other. I just picked up the project again after not touching it for a couple months and asked him a couple of questions regarding if I could delete some old files or not. NOW, we are using version control so he can get them back anyime he wanted in case we needed them, but I just wanted to make sure.  Unfortunately, he's cramming for an exam right now and I guess I must be a bit of a bother. He pretty much told me as much, said he was sorry for being a grouch but that he hasn't looked into the project for a few months and since he's studying could care less. I was fine with that. But then he said that since I'm a better programmer than him and the other guy whose been working on it with us combined, that he thought he spoke for both of us when he says: "have at it"

I'm tired of being told I'm so damn good at something that I get free reign over a project. That is not how group projects work. Its sad. I miss my friend Jack who actually questioned my decisions and we'd have great debates about which algorithm or data structure to use for a particular piece of a project. Sigh.