"Different" is the Word

Some people or situations make you uncomfortable. A person is 'different' - for various reasons - and you don't feel at ease dealing with them. So you try to avoid them. A situation is not like the ones you are used to, and you dislike it, so you try to get out of it. Why? You say: because that person or situation makes me feel apprehensive. Of course: the responsibility belongs to the "others" since they are not what you are used to. See if, instead, your reaction may be caused not by 'them' but by 'yourself'. You feel uncomfortable because you don't know how to react to or to deal with someone or something that is out of your sphere of experience. As a consequence, you feel afraid, inadequate, embarrassed.You never thought that such sensation could be caused by 'you' being insecure, nervous, frightened. Do you believe that you are not up to the situation, that out of your usual environment you are like a fish out of the water? If you need the security of what you "know", why not try to get familiar with the unknown?