Language and communication can be very subtle and open to all kinds of interpretations. This incident is a good example. Many people have difficulty understanding these subtleties and misinterpret exchanges.

You may be looking for insults and slights when that was not that person’s intention.

I see no reason your chiropractor would intend to insult you. That’s why my go-to interpretation was that he thought he was being funny and thought that you would also think his teasing was funny, based on the way you must have told him the story.

If you had told him about getting drunk and kicked out of bars in a way that was traumatic for you, I can’t imagine he would be ending your visits with saying to you in front of the whole office to ‘stay out of trouble’.

The first time he did it, and you said “whatever”, he did not understand by how you responded that you wished he would stop teasing you. “Whatever” doesn’t mean ‘I don’t want to talk about this and feel embarrassed’. I’m not sure what ‘whatever’ means.

I’ve had such bad experiences with me and another person not properly communicating that I’ve had to dissect language like this down to each word, yikes. It is frustrating and a common occurrence among people. I feel your frustration.