I understand that I’m a bit like a toaster that was advertised as a chef…but really all I do is try to burn your house down
This is a beautiful metaphor and I’m pissed that it came out of an LLM. Either this is a hilarious consequence of the word “toaster” often being followed by “burn your house”, or someone else on the Internet came up with it and the LLM just regurgitated.
100%. The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s apathy. A parent who reacts that strongly still cares about you on some level, however messed up their way of expressing it may be. A parent who would shrug and continue watching tv, on the other hand, is beyond redemption.