I am an Apple in a PC world. This is what I tell my college students to help them understand who they are and accept themselves exactly as they are. So many of them think that they are disabled or, even worse, defective. They feel like they do not fit in with the 90210s, even after trying to make themselves into who they are not.

PCs operate the world and all its businesses. Apple computers just have a different processing system. Apples are able to process graphics, design, music, and other things that PCs can't. The problem is that the PCs run everything; it is as if they speak English and we (Apples) speak Chinese. We will have to learn to speak English to fit into their world, since we are in the minority.

The interface between them and us is a social one. We need to learn their social language and we need to learn it differently for each situation that arises. To live in "their world" we need to adjust. It means that we need to spend time learning the social competencies. We need to spend as much time on them as we do on our own self-absorbing special interests.