They should love and accept the rain cloud for who it is.

Gaslighting the weather

Hey if people kept touching me, I'd develop flames too

Refreshing rain > deadly laser

While some people identify possibly problematic themes with this, for me it was quite moving. My family in particular have always seen this version of me that I never saw, especially not when I was suffering from depression and only seeing myself as someone who didn't deserve happiness, and once I started therapy it made it easier for me to start appreciating myself more. They saw the person it would take me a very long time to give myself permission to discover.

This reminds me of that.

cringed so hard it burst into flames

Is this just manipulation?

Yes, let's get the clouds to turn into giant balls of fire!

Yeah... Well, try calling me sunshine when in a grumpy mood and see what happens, I dare you.

Plasmalighting.

It’s strange to see how some people took this completely the opposite way than I did.

To me, it just shows that even when we’re at our lowest, a little bit of encouragement and a reminder on how much you mean to them can really drag you back from those dark depths.

People being nice to you is not always an ulterior motive.

It's like what people seem to be going for with "you could so much better if you just applied yourself", except it's actually focusing on what's good instead of drilling in the idea that you've failed and it's worse because you should have been able to do better. On the other hand, maybe the specifics would be a little more on point if they were thanking the cloud for the rain that makes their garden grow rather than trying make it be something else.