How Papercut Insults Made me Stronger

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Papercut insults are those statements that have a plausable denyability, and that could have been interpreted as insulting, or not. One of these papercuts isn’t a big deal, but a thousand papercuts over time can be devistating.

I did sometimes try to protect myself and make a ‘big deal’ out of one of these quasi insults, and he made me feel ‘crazy’ or like I was overreacting. To someone outside of…