Don't project your experience onto someone else's story.

Just because you have something in common with someone does not mean you understand what they are experiencing or that they are experiencing it for the same reasons you are. Be careful of making other people's stories about yourself. Personalizing statements that are not directed towards you or about you is an unhealthy trait. It's a recipe for a miserable life filled with being triggered whenever you catch a glimpse of yourself in someone else's words.