Aromantic with relationship issues

Firstly I'm not sure if this is the right board for this, but I know asexual and aromantic communities are close knit so I'm throwing my lot in.

I had friends I've known for years. I'm no longer friends with them but we got into an argument of my sexuality once, and it's been bugging me ever since.

I explained to them that being Aromantic, you have a unique experience with platonic connections because they mean more to people, when you don't have romantic ones.

They got offended, told me I was being patronizing. That I was insinuating non aromantics didn't have close connections to friendship, and that I was accusing them of being disgusting because they had romantic feelings.

Another one piped in to tell me that, the LGBT+ community struggles with having their love seen as normal, already, and that gay, bisexual and lesbian people have to deal with stigmas and issues where people second-guess if they love people.

I Am aware of the stigmas. Im also transgender and bisexual myself, I was hurt they implied I wouldn't understand that when I've been friends with this person for years and they knew that.

I'm second guessing if what I'm said was really the right thing to explain, now, and I'm hurt and would like some reassurance, or an outside input on the situation.

Thank you ahead of time for reading all this