Why can't I be myself around people?

I have serious trust issues.... so... what I did was I found a group ( for me, my school's Game Design Club) of people I could hang out with and actually relate to. Most of the people in the GDC have been trough some really bad stuff, so I know that I can share my experiences and utilize my personality around them. In my opinion, it all comes down to who you can trust, and when you're around them, just be you. Other times, when you're not around them, well... what i do is i just sit there, silently, and I mind my own business. Due to my past I've learned not to trust people right of the bat... but... of course there are those people you can tell that you can be you around and they will be perfectly fine with it. It took me till this school year ( I'm a junior in high school) to finally find people I can tell my past to, and that accept me for who I am. It takes some time, and a little searching. Just be you around some people, talk about what you like, you'll eventually find someone who likes the same stuff.

Sometimes it is hard to be yourself around people especially if you don't know them. Why do you think you can't be yourself?

Inhibitions. Start Letting Go of Your Inhibitions Today and Change Yourself. I know it's not easy but then being yourself has never been easy.

It's hard for some people to really feel safe or normal around others, which is okay. Everyone is different when it comes to opening up around others.

You can. You might feel like you can't. But you can. Do you feel anxious around other people? Maybe it causes to you climb into a shell?

Maybe because you're scared to let people see the real you and might think that once they see the real you the will start leaving you.

Because I'm afraid of what they could think about me. I'm afraid that they just say something like "you're weird".

Being yourself around other people can make you feel vulnerable if there are qualities about yourself that you feel insecure about. You can still be yourself around people but act differently with different people. That doesn't make you fake, it makes you a person, and that's OK! Surround yourself with people you like and people that care about you; your true self will come through.

I think it has something to do with meeting society expectations, its our human experience to be accepted by others, so we try to fit in as best we can.

I do not feel comfortable sometimes when being around people since they may judge me for who I am. Also, I act one way to one group and another way with another group. It is like I created a "persona" in order to "fit in" with a group of people I am with. The only time that I am "truly myself" is when I am alone in the house, room, or anywhere because I know that being myself is when I am true to myself. Knowing that it would also depend on my comfortability towards other people I know as well.