Have you ever been told you were toxic or just the toxic person in someone's life? How did that go?

Toxic people like to throw around the word toxic a lot. We can all be toxic at one time or another. I have been told it many times as my years get shorter. I often brushed it off, as the merit of the one saying it is usually questionable. Usually them projecting their own toxicity on you. The few times it has mattered I identified my toxicity and took initiative and did right. Sometimes you are wrong. Sometimes you were always wrong. Sometimes our outlooks need adjusting. Ask people. Get a therapist. Go to abuse counseling. Read about anger. Dump them. Learn to love yourself better so you aren't an emotionally abusive person. Live well. Read about traits that toxic people have. You will identify with many of them from other people and yourself. Grow. Growth mindset. If you wake up and live a day and run into a jerk once in a while it's a jerk. If it's most/ many/ a quarter people you are a toxic jerk. All that matters is you try to improve and unlearn the judgemental or controlling mindset that grew in you. Everyone on their worst day can look or feel like a terrible person. A truly terrible person learns nothing from it and repeats it forever.

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