I assure you I'm not making a fuss. I'm genuinely sorry that you've encountered people who were so strong in their insistence that they left you responding so emotionally to someone on an internet forum.

Assurances mean nothing next to actions.

True. My actions here are extending empathy towards you, and to consistently express that the empathy is genuine.

Responding as strongly and as angrily as you have suggests that someone in your past was needlessly rude or over correcting, and it's made you put up some walls.

Your assertions are unfounded and not based on the evidence we have.