When i was very young, from around the ages of birth to maybe 7, I exhibited what I consider my innate or "true" personality, like, outgoing, joyful, passionate, assertive and interested in many things. Because of life circumstances, trauma and also my personality was kind of numbed over by being given unrestricted internet access during my developmental years, my real, innate personality sort of stopped expressing itself and I became who I sort of feel like was a shell of my actual self. Paralyzing social anxiety from lack of exposure to social situations, a total pushover. In recent years through intense self-improvement efforts, I feel I've managed to regain a lot of who I was before, but there is still a ways to go. In some ways, my personality by "nature" still has yet to fully express itself today, although I know it's there. Wondering if anybody else can relate to this or has any advice on regaining the old me. Hope this makes sense.