I keep hearing that this is frowned upon, but I cannot help it. After I share, I circle back and explain how and why I connected the two stories to try to recenter the other person. Is this annoying? How do you want ND people to respond in that case?
NT communication has a lot of expected rituals and canned responses that make it feel so inhuman. I remember reading in Unmasking Autism that studies show that all the expectations of NT life are not well-received even by NT people. They just refuse to do anything about it because "that's the way it is".