Going out and other teen stuff

[Blablabla36489]

Hi, guys! For 6 days, I'm going to start the 8th grade. I'm really excited about that and all the thigs that wait for me in next year, but I'm a little bit worried about some things. Since start of the 7th grade, some of people my age have already started to go out with the other guys from few other schools in our city. There's a big group of teenagers now who know each other, go to parties and everything else. I'm sure I would join them just if I'm not that shy. I'm good-looking (everyone tells me that), dress nice clothes, always help people and like to talk to everyone if I could just start a conversation.

How can I overcome that shyness and start a new grade while making new friends and going out and everything similar?

[CosmicNoodle]

I'm often told that I come across as quite a conmfident and sexual person in normal converstaion, things that need confidence, but I actually have none, the hole time I'm talking to new people or meeting people I'm shitting myself, and I have anxiety for hors afterward. I just pretend to be confident, when on the inside I'm terrified, I can't really reccomend trying this but it's worked for me so far, just fake coinmfudence, if that makes sense.