When counter-evidence is provided, you dismiss it because you can only speak from your own experiences.
Your experience is not evidence. It's an anecdote.
in which case there’s no point in talking about anything, because you will not consider it valid unless you personally experience it.
In a world where everyone and their fucking mother has been trying relentlessly to gaslight me into believing this for 3 fucking years, despite any and all available evidence, yes, I absolutely will not. I'm long past done entertaining the notion.