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the thing is i think for most people a crush just means they feel a romantic attraction to someone to varying degrees, most people do not think about the word that deeply or have such negative connotations to it. that's not to say it's wrong to have a different internal definition of a word but you are maybe universalizing something that the good majority of people conceptualize differently.
It might be something the people I grew up around did, and plus that I'm translating a very local word for crush with a whole set of connotations into English, which isn't my first language. You're right, thanks!