Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : So, for some background: it was a couple of days before Christmas, and as I was doing the dishes, my dad whipped me with a towel. It was playfully, but I wasn’t in the mood, so I asked “Could you not”. A few minutes later, my mom was saying that I was giving her pushback on a lot of things, and I told her as respectfully as I could that I didn’t recall fighting her on anything recently./
My dad then said “[I]must be a miserable person”(though I heard it as “[I am] a miserable person”). I then responded with “of course I’m miserable and lazy to you (the man had called me lazy to my face in some of our more heated arguments)”. He of course responded with an angry “Shut your mouth”. My parents then went on a lecture about how I’m unpleasant to be around, and how it’s going to cost me friendships and jobs. /
My mother even cam back to lecture me further(she usually either supports my father or tries to frame what he said in the best possible light). And immediately to see if what they were saying was true I asked as many people as I could think of if I was a downer, and they said no. I guess my question are twofold:
1. Was I in the wrong for reacting negatively to what my father said?
2. Should I take what my parents said to heart when other people around me (who are very positive people I might add) disagree with it.