Dangit, me

[dogofthefuture]

I snapped at my child earlier tonight, and I... well, maybe I wasn't wrong to say what I said, but I was wrong to have snapped at her.

I don't even remember how it came up, but she said something to me that included the words "good job, *genius*" and that was what set it off, and I snapped at her and, as un-angrily as possible under the

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[ajax]

I can definitely relate to this; if Marty McFly's trigger is being called "chicken," and yours is slights to your intelligence, mine is being told to shut up. Nothing blows my gaskets faster than trying to silence me when I'm expressing myself.

--- Ajax.

[dogofthefuture]

Heh, I have another trigger, and it's specifically related to a particular incident that is too boring to relate, but I find myself unable to tolerate being called a "lying sack of shit." Which, to be fair, is a pretty offensive thing to say to anyone anyway, but this one happened at a time when I was probably lying about a lot of things but not this one, extremely stupid, petty, and ultimately pointless thing.

To be fair I could probably get over both of these things but my poor child's very, um, pointed use of the other trigger, uh, well, triggered me, I guess.