[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by the truth

compared the way hes been bullied and alienated as the feeling a person sued to get being isolated in the 1980s before we understood it

You are right.
That is how he meant it, he was not saying it was like he had aids but that he could feel like someone with it in the 80s as to the being ostracised bit.
He was not in any way demeaning aids.