[...You can't just say all that and then finish it with "Never mind," you know.

That said, he does hesitate for a moment before just...shaking his head a bit and trying not to stare.]

I...

[It...takes him a moment to work out what he wants to say; he tends to go quiet when it comes to things like this, they aren't things he likes to discuss, but- ]

...I have a tendency to be dismissive of things that others find upsetting. It's just how I tend to discuss things; it's easier that way, given that for a long time I wouldn't discuss anything at all.

But I'm genuinely not trying to be flippant about it, for what it's worth. It simply is what it is.