first impressions

My first impression on most people when they first meet me is that they think I am very shy and quiet. Once they get to know me better though, their opinion of me changes and they realize that I’m actually not shy and quiet but very outgoing. The majority of my friends thought I was a quiet person until we became closer friends and then they changed their minds about me. My first impressions on people aren’t usually that good because I can be shy when I first meet someone. Sometimes people think that because I’m shy at first that means I’m boring, but that’s really not true. It’s like judging someone when you don’t know that person at all, which I don’t think is a good thing to do. When my friends told me their first impressions of me, I wasn’t really surprised when they thought I was shy because most people tell me that. A lot of my friends’ opinions about me have changed but some still think I’m not as outgoing as I am around them as I am around other people. I can’t change their opinions so what they think of me now is probably going to remain the same as what they thought of me when I first met them. I don’t like that I can come off as shy and quiet, but I can’t change that so whatever my first impression is on some people is going to remain the same until their opinion changes.