Well if a white woman cannot understand racism then by this logic people can only understand what they experience first hand. That's ridiculous. What kind of life would that be? We'd only stick around people who are just like us. This is twisted logic. And generalization

I teach special Ed and I have a fiancée with disability but I don't have a disability so I can't understand my kids and their struggles and what my partner goes through? So must I have disability to be able to understand people with one? Really?

I have many non Jewish friends who very much understand what means to know that your great grandparents and all your grandparents' siblings perished in concentration camps. I never knew they must be Jewish to understand holocaust or anti-semitism.

I know many gays ( primarily my daughters friends but some through PFLAG). Neither I nor them ever thought I must be gay to comprehend their struggles!

If we believe the only people who can truly understand us are people just like us, then we are limiting our life and our experiences. I personally stand for diversity and do not support stereotyping and defeatist attitude.

This particular therapist might not be understanding, not that none can understand .

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