I disagree with the above comments. I loved the challenge of meeting the submissions criteria and imagining how steampunk tech might affect those with disabilities of different types. I found it really empowering to explore my own disability through this lens with honesty.

I also disagree that there isn't a disabled sense of community. People come together in many different groups through specific disabilities as they live through similar symptoms and feel they are not alone in support groups, occupational and therapy groups, social groups and even Facebook and online communities. They may not have a separate language in common but they have a way of life that people who don't have that disability don't understand. Their medication, therapy, daily living and interpersonal abilities can often make it feel like they are a different 'culture' and one that is not often explored by those who are not part of it except through condescending pity or sadly a fear not only of what is different but of what they can say or do around that person without causing offence. Now the world is opening up and we can learn what is appropriate to properly respect, validate and incorporate anuerotypical and disabled people by going online, researching and learning so much. We can ask, we can be corrected, we can grow and become an inclusive and diverse society.