On Empathy and Building Spaceships

Two things happened in my life yesterday (three if you count the fact I had an excellent halloumi pizza, but that's of limited relevance to this post). One, I finished my first week of a two month intensive web development bootcamp. Two, my twitter timeline* exploded in reaction in reaction to a (since deleted, with an apology**) post at SF Signal titled "We Are All Disabled". A titlethat, frankly, wasn't a good start, and it got considerably worse from there.

So I'm an autistic person studyi...