Hello recently I moved into college and am wondering how do deal with discomfort when talking to new people? I feel like many of the people I would get along with really well I just feel too uncomfortable to be myself in terms of humor and personality around them. I always feel like I have to be really nice (which I should anyway obviously) and have that really generic humor and bland personality that people have when first meeting people. How do I get over this. Obviously eventually I warm up to people and show my normal personality but I can just never do it without being around them for a long time first. Sometimes I also just don’t feel like socializing. It’s like I have a battery, and at a certain point I don’t want to be social and want to just chill in my dorm. Is that a bad thing? Another thing to note is that when talking to people I don’t know such as online in games, I am completely myself and will feel perfectly comfortable doing so, and i’ve made tons of friends online. So I think me being conscious of what other people will think about me is a big part of it, because with people online I don’t care cause it’s very likely i’ll never speak to them again. Essentially how do I just be myself around others when I have doubts as to whether people will like it, even though i’m sure they will. Any advice or someone to talk to would be awesome, thanks.