You could have responded along the lines, “Sorry to hear it. I guess you’ve had some misfortune on that front.”
Instead you responded with a straw man:
making judgements about large groups of people
It’s a straw man because:
At no point did I generalise or say all NTs do that.
I merely mentioned my experience.
Critcising an Aspie for reporting their lived experience is cruel and unsympathetic: the opposite of allyship, and wholly against the purpose of this sub.
You could have responded along the lines, “Sorry to hear it. I guess you’ve had some misfortune on that front.”
Instead you responded with a straw man:
It’s a straw man because:
Critcising an Aspie for reporting their lived experience is cruel and unsympathetic: the opposite of allyship, and wholly against the purpose of this sub.