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apologies if i interpret your story incorrectly. if your words were not what i guessed, then i have no argument against you and please have a nice rest of the day.
when someone uses the F word (the slur, not "fucker"), they invalidate all their own arguments.
you can cling to some private meaning for that word in your own mind, if you really must, but it will never convince others that yours is more correct. in their mind, it tells them that you don't accept them as even the minimum level of humans. would you not claim discrimination if they told you that you're not human?
maybe it's difficult to accept, but as Sheldon would say, this is a non-negotiable social convention.
You are correct and I get where you’re coming from, I don’t normally use that slur, it was used on him because he screamed and yelled at me “Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t excuse you!” At the top of his 🫁 lungs (see above it happened repeatedly), so I used that slur on him to paint him a picture of how offensive his remarks were.
i get that this can happen during overwhelmed moments. i have always found that when i cross that kind of line, the consequences last much longer than my overwhelm.
i hope you find an environment where that extreme interaction never feels nor becomes necessary.
Thanks brother