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From then on, it became sort of the routine. Try and search for some job to do later in life, get crushed every time for one reason or another, most often due to ableism and people being like, you won't be able to keep up despite not even letting me prove myself.

I got desperate enough to try for typical jobs like getting to take food orders, or answering the phone in a store. Each and every single time, I got met with the equivalent to a no.

It took various forms. From people teling me no outright, to the ones trying to play it more subtly and claiming they didn't hire anyone and the website was wrong, only to advertise they've hired someone not a week after I went there, I got it all.

But the most awful thing was the constant ableism I was the victim of while I wasn't even present to defend myself. When my parents tried to help by asking for a job for me to various people, they'd often get comments such as, I doubt a blind person can do this or that. I got very tired of it all.