Long as you can admit it then you are automatically ahead in many ways in regards to the earning of respect department.
Unlike crooked cops and abusive parents (and other forms of narcissistic personality disorder people) who will never ever say or utter these two phrases :
1) I am sorry
2) I was wrong
Sorry guys.
Oh for EFFS sakes you have NOTHING to apologise for. So you asked a question that you might've been able to find the answer for reasonably easy in other ways, BIG FRIGGEN DEAL. This is internet, you know there are always gonna be folks here who have nothing better to do than to jump on people over NOTHING. EFF-them!
Stand tall, man; you're a Squee, you're THE SQUEE!
I can't really give a full response to this as I only have connection via mobile device right now but I am not referring to parents of (so-called) "brats" but of severe cases that are properly defined by the very words I use and not the modern-day bastardization of meanings (more on lawyers and legalese another time though).
When a mother is pressing a hot iron to the face of her ten-year-old boy, then, from the very definition of that act, absolutely no other word would describe it accurately to me other than calling it abusiveness. I also had a former step-father who, despite the fact that I always got straight A's in school into my high school years, I never did drugs, I never drank alcoholic beverages, I have always been a non-smoker, I did all the expected chores (and more for that matter), etc, etc, I was constantly harassed by him like I was already guilty of something, and it eventually got to the point where even someone like me, who is extremely patient, was not going to tolerate his war-mongering against me any more and it was I who had to discipline him with a warning of severe consequences of sending him to the hospital with no possibility of recovery for the next 3 years in a row minimum.
The drama they caused was bad enough to result in my parents getting divorced not too long afterwards (within a couple years it eventually happened). In any case, the most productive years of my life with the most rapid financial progress came only after I had cut off all contact from all family, changed my number in order to prevent any contact from parents, and I was suddenly getting straight A's in school again when I was on my own.
I also have an amusing story of a little boy who was eventually willing to behave himself after I kicked his ass like he asked me to. And this was a literal kick, with him literally sticking his butt out, and I even double checked and triple checked if he was SURE he wanted me to kick his ass, and he was all like "Yeah, go ahead, kick my ass, Habi!" So I 'm like, "Okay, don't say I didn't warn you " and he got ONE good martial arts style mantis version round house snap kick stinging his ass.
"Ow! Habi, that hurt!
Me: "Well, D'UH! I even ASKED you if you were SURE that you wanted to get your ass kicked and you even INSISTED that I kick your ass. That's how it feels when you get your ass kicked! Why the hell would you insist for me to kick your ass!?"
I should probably have used "politicians" as a better or at least more agreeable example of NPD. And I certainly do not align nor agree with those who exude politician-behaviour.
I'm 15.7k as of typing this, 8 (soon to be 9) mastered titles and I haven't completed G21 JUST because of what I heard about the bosses being almost impossible. (I managed to do G22 and G23 though, tedious but I somehow got through.)
And I'm not gonna complete G21 until I'm like 50k total level or the gens get rewritten (which probably won't happen).