Don’t You Dare Use the ‘D’ Word Again

How One Incident Turned a Word into a Trigger for Life

Someone once told me that I am ‘Dumb’.

That little 16-year-old girl was judged for her whole life. | Photo by Raka Muhammad Iqbal Ismail on Unsplash

There was a person in my life who made me feel very low by constantly insulting me and calling me dumb until I cried.

Even my tears didn’t make him take his words back. He meant them.

It has been exactly 10 years since that incident, and I do not remember the reason why.

However, I remember that he was a disgusting man in many ways, and not understanding that everyone is different was his DUMBNESS.

Since then, the word became my trigger because of that one incident.

A few days ago, I wrote this story,

How Comparison Led to My Childhood Struggle

where I talked about how I realized that,

No two people are the same and every person is unique in their own way.

Everyone is different. You might not be good at what others are good at, or they might need help understanding what you can do.