I think us reverts need to keep in mind that we are often seen as being cold and uncaring towards born Muslims. We also often act very zealous and often get into trouble because we tend to try to impress people with our knowledge of Islam. we can be very much like young children who have completed the first grade of school with honors and now believe we are experts in everything.

Yes, there are unintentional barriers set up by born Muslims against Reverts, but we reverts also unintentionaly set up barriers against born Muslims.

Remember it takes 2 hands to extend the hand of friendship. often we need to be the one extending the hand. If you do not extend your hand to me, it becomes my responsibility to extend my hand to you. we all should strive to be the first to extend friendship to our brothers and sisters, in the event a brother or sister does not extend friendship to us, we should thank Allaah(swt) for giving us the opportunity to be the first to extend it.