Until I went into 6th grade I was very social, the first one to raise my hand, read in class, ect. Then when I went to middle school I became very, very shy. I am going to be a sophmore this year and I don't know how to talk to people or be confident around people who aren't close to me. I am so self concious that sometimes when someone near me laughs, I just feel like they are laughing at me. Can you give me any advice on how to overcome this?
The thing that really bothers me is I am thrown into classes by myself. I am the smarter one of the group (not meaning that the rest are stupid) I just have the most book smarts. All my friends tend to be in classes with each other while I am by myself in these more advanced classes that I have to take for the degree I'm going for. My freshman year pretty much ****ed because of a couple of teachers who seemed to hate me and some friend issues. So I pretty much said nothing all day and only answered questions when the teacher made me. I don't seem to have anything in common with the kids at my school becuase I have Christian values and I'm a good kid. Most conversations at my school are about sex and drugs or boy friend drama.

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im going into my sophmore year too, and it is sorta rough.

if you have one good friend, hang out with him/her while s/he is with their another friend, that way you gradually gain more friends by someone you know and your comfortable with.

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face ur fears...

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