The way you phrase that makes it seem like it's an unjustified hard on.

When I was about 12 years old I broke the fire extinguisher in my classroom kind of on purpose. The teacher and the principal accused me of doing it because I was a terror back then, and because of some circumstantial evidence. I stood my ground and said they were drawing their conclusions based on past behaviour. It was a stalemate. They knew I did it, I knew I did it, but I had convinced myself that their suspicions around me were based on bias.

Now, Dante. Re: Borgesi. If it quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck, it's a duck.