Who you’re becoming will feel unfamiliar for a while. New shoes always feel weird before they fit.

Changing how you behave produces a period where you feel like you are pretending, because the new version does not match the internal picture yet. That mismatch is uncomfortable and people read it as evidence of being fake. It is actually just the gap between doing something and having done it enough times for it to feel automatic.

Give any new habit or role a month before deciding whether it suits you, since the first weeks always feel borrowed. Keep doing it on the days it feels forced, and check how much of the awkwardness has quietly gone.