My partner doesn't understand depression, and not in a normie

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My partner doesn't understand depression, and not in a normie way. I'm starting to wonder if they* have legit autism or something.
> dealing with the death of my father
> living paycheck to paycheck in my own apartment because I'm poor and extended family will not be taking me in
> existential depression is coming back along with general depression brought about from recent events
> initially thought we could be cut from the same cloth, but what little sadness they had actually stopped just from dating me
> so little going on in their lives that our break up might be the only thing that would make them sad--never wanted for anything and don't particularly feel a source of shame about themselves in general
>venting just results in a blank stare, changing the subject, making a joke or posting a dank meme of some sort
They also told me that they just don't really understand being depressed or even what to say, they just don't feel deep sadness like that. It's not even like I'm being told to get over it, it's just that they acknowledge on an abstract level that it's bad, but lack zero skills to empathize. It's like watching an apartment burn up from inside your apartment, they're watching, but they aren't in it with me.

I guess what I'm asking is if this is normal, even normies might get it but just not want to be burdened, in this case it seems almost alien to them.
> *really don't want my info skewed with gay hate/roastie bias