That's exactly how it should work.
Healthy social interaction is NOT drawing invisible lines around ourselves and exerting Herculean effort to stay inside those lines. That's not socialization, it's voluntary imprisonment. It's living in fear and lying about who you are, and that's not good for you or the people with whom you're engaging. Someone else drawing the lines and telling us when we're crossing them is what gives us license to be honest, to be who we are and say what we really need to say.
It's more disappointing to see people apologize for having an opinion, beg forgiveness for disagreeing, dissemble and prevaricate about how they feel and what they mean, bend over backwards to avoid crossing the imaginary boundaries they've constructed for themselves. I'd rather be surrounded by honest assholes, and be an honest asshole, than cowards and liars whos personalities are entirely dependent on the prevailing winds.
My warnings were for being myself, and you're goddamn right that I'm proud of them. They say that I have the courage to expose my true personality instead of hiding behind a façade, and explore the boundaries of what's acceptable rather than constraining myself to the limits I would otherwise impose on myself. This is me, in all of my magnificence and my flaws, naked before you and with my head held high, unashamed.