Hello there /adv/. Long time lurker, first time poster. I was

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Hello there /adv/. Long time lurker, first time poster.
I was wondering if anyone could be able to come up with some reasoning regarding an awkward (and insulting) situation that's come up many times in my life. I would just like to preface this post with a little info about me first, so that we're on the same page! I am visually impaired. I use a really big monitor, along with a audio program to help me surf the web in my downtime. I live a normal life, but I just don't see very well. I have a job, some friends and coworkers, and an aid that comes once a day to help me do things I can't do on my own. I am actually really great ful for the things I can do, and I feel relatively happy about my life. It could be much worse.

That being said, several people have made comments to me that are sort of "untoward", and I don't understand where they are coming from. I feel like there is something I'm missing.

They always go something like this: I'll be in a situation where I'm alone with someone and we'll just be talking, then they'll either ask if I'm depressed or outright make a comment about how I am depressed. Most recently, I was at a family event and it was getting late, my home health aide came to pick me up and as I was leaving I heard my aunt say, "Aww, don't go, you'll just go home and be lonely." To which my family awkwardly laughed and told her to be quiet, but I could tell that they had talked about that at some point. Or another time, I was at work doing maintenance work when my boss pulled me aside and outright asked if I was depressed. I felt fine.

I get this a lot from various people. Why? In a way, I find it offensive, but it makes me wonder if they are interpreting sthing about me.