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Originally Posted by autotelica
I didn't mean to be insensitive by using the word "sordid". It seemed like an apt descriptor for a life characterized by abuse, but it was not my intent to provoke negative reactions.
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I know that you didn't have any bad intent. But just to be clear so you can really understand: here is the definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
" Definition of
SORDID1
: marked by baseness or grossness
: vile <
sordid motives>
2
a : dirty,
filthy b : wretched,
squalid
I'd really like to know that you understand that abuse victims are not sordid, nor do we have sordid histories. That is a word better reserved for terrible ENVIRONMENTS, not experiences or people.
And just because I was abused in childhood does not make me, or my life, "characterized" by abuse. My life is more characterized by who I have become, not my past.