Speaking of words and their meanings...I grew up being called all sorts of homophobic slur words while being physically harmed at the same time. Yesterday, in response to my distress over it, my therapist said, well fa**ot is for males so they didn't even get that one right. As if that helps? The session ended awesomely, with a book she'd just gotten for herself that she let me borrow, but this other part keeps dragging me down. It seems she must have expressed some understanding about being called those names other times that this has come up, but now this is all I can think about because she's on vacation and it seems like forever until my next appt, even though she's gone only one week.