Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.
I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.
Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.
I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.
Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.