Hello! Here is the context, pretty long so kindly bear with it — I am a small content creator who loves filming and editing and I get plenty of content queries a lot from other creators in how to make their content more appealing and so on.

I’ve been getting repeat questions that can easily be searched up, and including her daughter’s (which is one of my followers) so I mentioned on my broadcast channel: “Friendly reminder that it’s great to be resourceful! Before you go out of your way to ask questions, ask yourself first — can I search this within 10 seconds and immediately find the answer? You’ll be surprised to see the information you’ll be getting, and best part is, you did it on your own!”

Here’s the mother’s message: Hi I am a mother and you made my 18 old year daughter cry 😢 because she asked a question and you said in a group that you should research and not ask questions!! First of all you need to be nicer to your followers! My daughter is autistic so she can’t learn stuff easily like you or me! Some kids have learning difficulties! So you should be a nice person and don’t make people cry! Stop taking your self so seriously! You are not famous and I am sure when you started you learn a lot from other people too! Maybe now you know everything but don’t forget you are not curing cancer but you are just showing makeup! Relax and be nicer !!

My response: Hello! That wasn’t my intention. I didn’t say not to ask questions, however questions that could easily be searched up can be done. I apologize if you think I came across as being rude, if you’ve been actually looking at my page especially my stories, I have highlights that help a lot of creators. I do understand that people may have learning difficulties but I am not someone they can rely on, furthermore- I am not responsible with their emotions or how they react, and this applies to the general public. I always answer a lot of related questions with content creation, simply judging how I should be “nicer” on a single statement and how I made people cry when I’ve been generous everytime in sharing my resources. Then again, I hope you also don’t take this too seriously and see my point across. I always appreciate my community, despite me being a small account, but that doesn’t mean they’ll just solely be dependent on others for everything & anything, but I still do my best to give them the resources. Yes, I’m not famous, and I also learned when I started, but I’m not google and neither am I a positive life coach. That being said, I do understand & acknowledge that there are many people who have more difficulty learning & are more emotionally sensitive than others, but then again, like I said, I’m not responsible for how and what they feel, and blaming me for making your child cry instead of helping them understand and guiding them that the world doesn’t cater to everyone, seems more of a projection to me.

Asking some advice since this has been brought up, I’m wondering if I really just came out as rude, and I want to further understand how those dealing with autism would react as it doesn’t seem much of a big deal. I’d like to be more empathetic but at the same time I’m not even responsible for how their child reacted that way.