Above all, I was overwhelmed with being surrounded by more professionals with disabilities than I had ever in my life met offline. More programmers with disabilities. More female programmers with disabilities. At one point I was hard pressed not to start crying. Dreamwidth has been great for introducing me to other professionals, other techies, other female professionals and female techies disabilities. But I underestimated the emotional impact of being surrounded by that many of us in one room.

I am belatedly massively envious of you for being able to have this experience. I did once make it to a disability conference and it was an overwhelming experience, but that was mostly people interested in education and mostly males and a long time ago. I feel very far away from "the good stuff" sometimes, down here in Melbourne :/

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