My high school baseball coach use to belittle me with ethnic slurs of being stupid, you may guess my family ethnicity as being Polish. I consider myself, especially in this day and age, 100% American being born in America, despite being bilingual, and a different language of French in school for a year, and two college level courses of Spanish and Chinese Manderin languages. So back to the story, I go to his classroom that he teaches one day, I happened to be the only varsity baseball player there at the time. The baseball coach tells me that for the next baseball game, it being a playoff game, he's going to bench me, even though I did get a homerun earlier in the season and my batting average was ok. Here's the kicker, he tells me he's going to put a freshmen in my place, though he was ok as well, this makes no sense as being a senior it could be the last game being a one and done playoff baseball game. Later that day, or immediately thereafter, I can't remember exactly when as I've tried to block this out, I took my varsity jersey and put it on his desk and said I quit if your going to play an ok freshmen instead of an ok senior that led every baseball workout and was his gopher basically, as this baseball coach sold candy to his students, and was his ethnic slur punching bag. To this day, I never looked back. It actually was quite satisfactory standing up to this bully this way. I have other traumas like a divorce, and so on, but life does go on, and eventually you meet someone else as I did. I have tried to do everything myself 100% because it's difficult to depend on others. Even reddit has its keyboard rangers trolls if you experienced them, you'll know what I'm talking about. So anyway, thanks for reading, I didn't know it's possible to bottle up something for so long, we're talking 30 plus years.