I thought I just had a crappy personality. I wanted to be a person who liked parties and socializing and being there for important events in my friends and family’s lives.
But it was so hard. It was easier to stay inside the house than make small talk with the neighbors outside. I’d always felt this way, ever since childhood.
I was popular, had plenty of friends but only the pretend me was showing. I’d come home every day exhausted from pretending I had it all together.
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