Joshua said that I was "awkward" to be around. Do you think that his comment was helpful to me?

On the night before I left Korea, after being fired from my teaching job, Joshua told me that I was "awkward to be around".

He said that because I was very shy of the other teachers who were super popular and because I lacked confidence. After Joshua told me that, I thought everyone else in the world saw me as "awkward". I would talk to people and assume that's how they saw me.  That was until I went to teach at a new school and everyone treated me with respect and made me feel valuable. When people told me that they liked me and made me feel I was just like everyone else, it helped build my confidence and made me less awkward to be around strangely enough.

Here are some things you should know about Joshua:

*His colleague caught him cheating with his colleague's wife

*Joshua made fun of me for "being a virgin" one night, even I did't tell him that I was or wasn't, he tried to force me to admit my vaginal history infront of a bunch of other teachers

*Some of the teachers that Joshua was with, told me that he was "just being a guy"

*There are now anti-sexual harassment policies in all MB schools abroad because of the way Joshua treated me

So were Joshua's words about me "being awkward" helpful? Could he have said something better than that to me?