The trick of course is when you go swimming to wear your board shorts over your suit and then put your board shorts at the side of the pool or beach just before you enter the water. Then reverse the process when you come out. That keeps your board shorts dry and the suit will quickly dry underneath.
That way, people will gradually get used to seeing you for just a moment or two wearing the smaller suit. No one gives a darned what you are wearing once you get into the water as they can't really see underwater anyway.
The neat thing about this is that when you are out of the water you are in nice dry board shorts not waterlogged board shorts. So its really the more "conservative" option than wearing the board shorts right into the water.
Try this. As you gain more confidence and those around you get more comfortable seeing you in a "real" swim brief. You can remove the board shorts a little earlier, and so on. There are two big problems with board shorts for swimming. First, they create lots of drag making swimming more difficult, and second, if that's all you are wearing then when you come out of the water you are wandering around in these gloppy waterlogged shorts that are dripping pool water everywhere.
This also works very well at hotel/motelpools. Wear a tee shirt and board shorts while you are in the elevator or lobby going to and from the pool. Then just leave these at the side of the pool when you go into the water. Reverse the process coming out. Dry off your real suit with a towel before slipping the board shorts back on.
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