Yeah, I know, but there's knowing this and there's "knowing" this. I've interviewed enough people to know that people get declined for the dumbest reasons, or n

Yeah, I know, but there's knowing this and there's "knowing" this. I've interviewed enough people to know that people get declined for the dumbest reasons, or no reason at all, so I'm aware that it's really not a slight on my character that some middle manager at a company doesn't think I'm smart enough. But it can be easy to forget that too. I prepare for the interview, I do my best to answer a bunch of technical questions, I try and be polite and straightforward with my answers, I try and be the very best version of myself, only to get a rejection two days later. It's just exhausting. They'd be so much easier if I were allowed to be actually be honest with these things. I wish that I were allowed to answer the "why do you want to work for Company X?" with "because I need to exchange money for goods and services to survive and I am hoping that if I provide some of my time and expertise you will provide me some money", instead of trying to explain how I think that working on a website that generates AI videos of cats dancing will somehow save the world, which is what they actually want to hear. I think I am a bit too autistic to really get it; they know I'm lying, I know I'm lying, what's the point of making me go through that song and dance? I realize it's just the hoops that everyone has to jump through, I get it, but it's just exhausting.