Ofcourse its tricky and hard to play someetimes. you definitively should play it in position. But I dont recommend to fold it in early position automatically when you are about average stack. I dont think its even super tight, its just stupid play to fold it. Just make proper raise, maybe little more than normal, like 4-5 BB (to get some informations, if someone call that big raise made from early position, he probably has really good hand, than be carefull on flop) and see whats gonna happen.