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Well said Joe!

I was once on a non-autism forum for social anxiety and highly sensitive people, where I thought I'd feel at home. But when I posted about getting anxiety when shop door alarms go off when I'm walking out of a shop (because of the attention it draws), some replies I got were rude and unsupportive. Not nasty or trolling or anything, but just surprisingly unsympathetic for a forum that's supposed to be for sensitive people with social anxiety to chat and relate to each other.
Even people without social anxiety issues admit that it's embarrassing when a store alarm goes off as they're walking out when they haven't stolen anything, and so for a shy/social anxiety person it can be traumatic and can make us become avoidant of going to shops on our own.

Where did that stereotype come from?
It's not in DSM.
Every time I hear the E word in autism news, it's because researchers are saying we have it.
How did the myth start?

I'm not getting into this again. But as far as I know it was an English psychiatrist, Simon Baron-Cohen, who put that idea forward.

I have much empathy...

for those who deserve it.

Oh, and I do for those who don't really deserve it, but ofc they're Human just like me, so I can also empathize with something about their experiences, but I just don't SHOW it, because "reasons"

It definitely sounds like she decided that she didn't like you from day 1 and while she is being hurtful, she's also showing you that she's not worthy of you or your time. It also means that you don't have to deal with her negative energy.

Anyway, my friend's roommate was mad because I stepped over her boundaries by correcting her little girl. Why? I didn't think she was listening to her mom or the roommate. However, she was not comfortable with that because she was just getting acquainted with me for the first time. Still, she was very snippy with me on the car ride home from the meet-up. When they dropped me off, she decided to block me which isolated me from the rest of the group and the socials. It really hurt because I was just getting to know some new people.

Well, I found out a few years later that she is a very difficult person to deal with and doesn't get along with anyone, except her spouse. From what I have been told, she is someone who has to be right no matter what. She also evidently can't keep her friends because she overreacts.

Well, unfortunately, some people can dislike it for no reason because it's just the way they are.

Two weeks ago, I went to an event through an organization and I noticed that this one woman, who I had never met, kept avoiding me.

I also used to ride the bus with this woman who looked at me really funny the first time I talked to her. She also decided that for whatever reason that I am a B word. However, she was a strange duck because if I rode the bus with her, she would get off and get lunch somewhere. She also refused to me talk or respond to me.

However, other people told me they thought she was stuck up and strange