The Legal Definition Of Abuse.

I'm also a little confused by the legal definition of abuse. I do know in 1988 if I filed a patient's rights abuse claim against that hospital in Dearborn it would have gone nowhere. They wouldn't have done what they did to me if they thought I could simply file a claim like that. (Which, not to digress, but has me wondering. Can any mental patient file a patient's rights abuse claim in Michigan? In 1988 I certainly couldn't.) But what counts as abuse?

I know in my life, coughing, using numbers and ordinary words, humming loudly. (Because that really annoys me, that last one, and want people to stop when they do it. So they do it more and more, because they know there is never anything I could do to make them stop doing that in public.) Making everyone in my life, everyone, tell me something that upsets me a lot at the time. Like I was ugly, as a child. Insinuating I am too mentally handicapped to drive. That last one being a horrible, violent threat, not just form of abuse, like I've said. All kinds of horrible threats, and doing them in a way that shows they can get away with them, and no one in US knows about it or could stop them. Limiting my access to important restrooms, on my way home for example, as I already explained. Taking away from me things that are just simple pleasures, but doing that to show me even those can be taken away. Public humiliation, sometimes with false accusations. Which I know were no accident sometimes, that last one BTW, false accusations (I am going to have to inform people more of that too). Horrible injustices. In other words showing me that I don't even have basic rights that I thought all Americans just automatically had and could never be taken away. And then mocking me with that and rubbing my face in it. I could go on and on, but those are all the forms of abuse I have experienced.

But to focus on the supposed harmless ones, I actually sometimes wonder about those ones especially. Because abusers often do that, say that they are just engaging in harmless behavior. I had an uncle who did horrible things to a cousin of mine. And one of the things he did was tickle him, claiming they were just playing. But he tickled him until he was covered with sweat and crying. Or I was thinking of another good one, one that I have even shared from time to time online. What if a child is a vegan, and their parents are meat eaters? And what if they claim that in their house everyone eats meat? I really don't know how that would be handled legally, if the child was under 18. Because parents do have the right to raise their children as they see fit. Jewish parents can demand their children grow up Jewish and don't eat pork. Same for Muslim parents. Actually, put another way, vegan parents would be well within their rights to demand their kid not eat meat, even if they loved it and were strong supporters of carnism. But feeding your kid meat, in the first example, could become a form of abuse. And what if you were cruel about it, but maybe in a deceptive way. Serve your child veal every night. Because you know, veal especially upsets vegans. But you serve it to them in way that is not obviously cruel. It's just what's for dinner every night, IOW.

I just wonder about all of that above. What was done to me was obviously abuse because I told people immediately I really didn't like it, and then they continued to do it and then did it even more. All of that above was done to me in excess, and many times it hurt me and even damaged me for life or caused me serious psychological and functioning problems. But the legal definition of abuse is a good question in itself I think.