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I'm asking this question for my job coach. He overheard my crush saying she wasn't trying to "reject" me.

Today I found out verbally that this week will be my crush's last week working at the thrift store that I volunteer at. She (19) is a few years younger than me (22). My job coach (33) is much older than me, but they seem to get along slightly better - just slightly.

For the "longest" time (I'd say about a month or two) I hadn't opened myself up to the girl I approached. Despite her being younger than me, she was actually in charge of the site where I was helping with donations and stocking clothes separately by gender/age (men's, women's, kids') and type (tops, bottoms).

Once I heard from her that she was quitting, I asked her where she thinks she's considering moving to as far as career goes, and she said she's moving for school. I prompted that she didn't mind me asking, could I have her number. She said no, I apologized by saying sorry but she told me not to be sorry since it's work and she has to keep it all work-related, even after I said I just wanted to make a friend.

THAT was when my job coach started hearing the "reject" part from the girl's mouth. To be fair, my job coach even told me that when he and she first started talking it seemed a bit off. The girl was supposed to just be a temporary employee.

My job coach thought that I was making the girl feel uncomfortable and the disability program I belong in has guidelines regarding communications/appropriate talk with the opposite sex. I've literally seen job coaches flirt with each other in the program and people didn't seem to think it was a big deal.

The girl and the male job coach both are white people of European ethnicity. I am ethnically Arab and Armenian.

The rules exist because of the monetary rewards system and the points get downgraded if misbehaviors and even flaws are pointed out by the job coaches. Men with disabilities are almost treated like children in many cases.

I lived in Connecticut where I was born all my life until 2018. I had just finished my first year of community college with 32 credits and I'd planned from the beginning to move to Texas to start my career.

Little did I know I'd be going a lot sooner than expected as my father was offered a job by my uncle in Texas, so we all moved down in late 2018. It's taken me a while to get used to the heat as 80 degrees is considered very hot in Connecticut but that's comfortable here.

At first I felt lost, like I didn't really belong there but the benefits of living here as opposed to Connecticut started coming very quickly as soon as I was able to motivate myself to groom myself up (I isolated myself for months because I'd spiraled into a depression) and get acclimated to the weather and start looking for work (Texas is ranked #1 in the nation for labor).

I got a job easily at a sandwich shop which didn't pay a lot but it's an accomplishment not really doable in Connecticut.

I also noticed how much cheaper everything is, especially housing and a lot less red tape to purchase a firearm, along with hunting areas and wildlife unlike anything I'd ever seen in Connecticut. Everything is so much cleaner and workers are picking up garbage all the time, which is something I didn't see in CT.

I've learned to love the state and really call it my home as I am getting back on track to start my career. I don't see myself moving out of the state unless it's to move to Florida to be with my long distance girlfriend in a case where she believes life for her and her family would be best in Florida instead of Texas. Me and her have a very bright future together and I hope I can sell her on the vast opportunity that Texas has to offer which just doesn't exist anywhere else. Moving to Texas was an excellent decision.

Have you moved from state to state? Are you glad you moved?