This guy I used to like thinks im a retard?

[Anonymous]

It stings. I'm not going to lie. It's embarrassing when I'm actually very smart & intelligent & creative in other things. I've been dissociating my whole life because of child abuse and etc so i wasn't there all the time. This really hurts my feelings. I hate going out in a way that I won't fight back but I can't. I'm dead.

I may be slow but retarted? And he's ALWAYS thought of me this way. 😿 💔 for years? Why me.

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I grew up extremely socially inept too like I didn't have a social life growing up. I was only in sports

[Anonymous]

How do you know this?

[Asker]

To me he's the only one who was capable of finding out information about me in the past & having connections with a lot of people. Either that or a lot of peers and authoritarians are evil & didn't want to see me achieve anything

[Opinion Owner]

Sorry, let me rephrase. How do you know specifically that he thinks (and uses) the word “retard” to define you? I know that was a word people used to toss around as a casual diss but now it’s highly offensive. I don’t know anyone who actually uses and calls someone something so vulgar and they’re serious about it.

[Asker]

That was a word used to describe me 5 to 7 years ago.
Now they say "special ed"

[Asker]

But he used the words to humiliate me and hurt my feelings.

[Opinion Owner]

So he called you “a retard” to your face? If so then that’s very rude and mean. Try not to let it keep getting to you, words only have they power that you allow.

[In_Trance]

You're almost middle aged. Wtf