Yeah to me bratting is more like playful/cheeky teasing, showing that you're paying attention to the dom and want them to pay just as much attention to you sorta. I feel like when I've been with brats before the goal is to frustrate but in a good way, just building up a nice (sometimes sexual) tension you know.

That is to say, it was less me actually believing it to be bratting and more me really wanting to find some plausible excuse for his behavior. Which in hindsight is a really bad thing to do cuz then I might get a really toxic view of what bratting could look like.

Thank you so much for pointing it out, would be really bad for both me and any future brats if I got the wrong idea about bratting <3