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OTs I have been associated with by working in the same org as them, or they occasionally visited the org.
1. A woman who seemed straightforward and cheerful and not bad to be around. No problems with her "OT" state getting in the way of interaction.
2. A guy I worked even more closely with. From Cockney background. Very down to earth and a very no-BS sort of person. Would keep to the rules about not divulging OT level stuff, but was very plain that he was hoping to achieve "exterior with full perception" someday, that he had not achieved that on his OT levels. Actually he must have had some idea that he could not have completely expected it, but since he went on about it I think he had hoped he would get it. He didn't have any BS about how he interacted with people, He was always down to earth before and after his OT levels.
There were a couple of others I knew a lot more closely. They were in jobs IRL working with the public which was very hands on and requires authentic real people so they too did not seem to have an "OT personality" in the way. One of them came back from TTC at FLAG once (was already OT 7) and she obviously had HUGE ISSUES!! about her time there, but would only talk to "the correct terminals" about it.
So far these were all on day or fnd staff. They seemed to feel comfortable knowing that they were not going to be asked awkward questions or they could easily deal with them if they were asked.
There was a public OT who hang around the org helping a bit. She seemed a bit less at ease and some of the younger staff or helpers would asks her things requiring a bit of dodging. She used too say sometimes "It's all about 'granting beingness' " That's what it's ALL about, granting beingness". I got the idea that she was implying that there were a lot of things that she'd had to do, that it WASN"T about"
....I assumed wrong bridge steps, policy appied wrong etc etc, because as a staff member I could see public and staff having 'issues' with things like that.
There was another 'public' OT who did not need to deal with our org really but becuase we were the closest, and no AO in the area a bit of contact occured. She was very very stand offish and to my mind unfriendly, but then, being pestered and bothered by people at our org could have caused that!
It was a relatively small town (city) and small place = OTs had to fit in or stick out painfully like a sore toe. I am assuming most scientologist did not make them uncomfortable by asking them to fetch ashtrays without using arms and legs or asking for upper level secrets. At times where I did see a question the OT would not be permitted to answe,r they would just smile and say "You'll just have to do your OT levels" and not a word about batshit crazy space opera, or FAILED OT LEVEL phenomena etc.
