Disability

I once did a job interview at a hotel here in Lakeland, Florida a couple of years ago. Mind you this was during the peak of COVID. I was all set and ready and the guy was asking me about my disability, who was the person I was with, and I think he just did not get it. I honestly felt really awkward in that interview. I never went back there again, as I thought you weren't supposed to ask that. He said something about difficulty training me even though I thought I would do fine, but he was not a very friendly employer, and to be honest, even if I got the job there, I think it would have been a very difficult time. People nowadays are not as forgiving, and I have seen that even going back to when I worked at a Walgreens in Fairfax, Virginia in 2013-2014. Hence, I am always very skeptical of people's intentions a lot of the time. When I head out, I am well aware that it is an unforgiving world. I don't have to go far to see it. When I go on the bus, you have to really keep your wits about you. There are some areas of Lakeland that have people who are very willing to take advantage of you. Thankfully I have never been in that situation, but I did have a roommate once that did. So for me, I have a rather cynical/skeptical view of the world. Don't get me wrong, it's not all the time that I have this view, but nowadays in a volatile world, you can't be certain how people will react. But then again, if there is one thing I have learned is that the environment to which one is in will play a big factor into that, whether that is religious extremism, greed, especially from barrators (corrupt politicians or businessmen, from Dante's Inferno, 8th circle, ditch 5; old term for grafter/grifter) or others. For me, I have lived in pretty diverse neighborhoods, plus have lived in Europe for 2 years so I got to see a lot of what goes on, and thus wasn't really affected by the dogmatic ideas that seem so prevalent now, especially in the United States.