I think this is the correct place for this. If not, I apologise.

This is going to sound really silly, as I only met this person exactly a month ago via a friendship app for those with Autism, and we'd been getting on great - we have most of the same struggles in life, find it hard to make friends, etc. So, I felt a very strong connection with them!

So, anyway...

I decided I'd give her a bit of space, so that she could focus on spending time with her Boyfriend. I refrained from sending a message for 24 hours. Similarly, she was not seen on WhatsApp in 24 hours (since we'd last spoken!).

I sent her a message asking how her day went, etc. But I just had a strong feeling that something was wrong and deleted the message and just asked if she was okay instead. She had a row with her Boyfriend the previous week (they sorted things out since then!), and I got worried it had happened again.

Anyway, when she got back to me, her message was in response to the since deleted message (that hadn't been marked as seen), I also never saw her come online, or see her typing, so I mentioned in my response back that I was confused - and she took offence at this.

So, she sent me a 24-paragraph message in response and ended it with "Take care and all the best!" and had blocked my number before I had chance to respond back.

Her main issues were she felt that...

• I criticized the way she spoke, which I have never done!

• Expected her to reply as and when suited me, as if she was a puppet on a string (her analogy), which was not the case.

• Thinks it was what she said that confused me, when it was mainly that the message hadn't been read/she wasn't showing online!

I only realized after it that she probably responded from the notification on her phone, which likely wouldn't mark it as seen!

I guess what I want to know here...

Should I have at least been given a chance to explain what I meant? Did she overreact? Is it my fault?

Sorry for the long thread, I'm just kinda struggling to cope with it - really could be doing with another person's view.