Verbal abuse

I’ve come sooo far. It amazes me every time because I left from just sitting and crying and wondering if what my mother said was true to saying exactly what I think and defending myself. 4 years ago if she called me a whore for piercing my nose i would never ever say ‘ a socially constructed word for a person that’s overly sexual active and im not so your term is wrong’ and after I said that she said ‘u think you’re smart but you are stupid’ and I said ‘ well you’re the one using the term wrong so’

IM NOT CRYING. Like I’m not even sad I’m okay and even 2 months ago I wouldn’t be okay and i can honestly say I’m okay now. I mean I want to cry because wow ive realllyyy come a long way but I’m not crying because my mother was ‘mean’ I don’t know what I did to get here but I want to know because I want to continue growing I love this