Your a spook. Seriously though, your are a defensive person, in that you hide. Now whether or not this projects a false image depends on the person to whom you are projecting the image. Some people are rather astute, and would see through it, see that you are in actuallity a rather insecure person, painful truth, but truth nonetheless. The question that you should be asking yourself is not who you are, but why you are the way you are, and if it is actually desirable to change that