> But if you're hacking something together, if you think you have a way to help, be cautious. Don't give in to the desire to "disrupt" this space. Instead, work

> But if you're hacking something together, if you think you have a way to help, be cautious. Don't give in to the desire to "disrupt" this space. Instead, work with the psychological community, work with those who study neurological development. Don't just make something parents and loved ones want, make something that works. I used to work for a startup that (among other things) made very innovative teaching tools for autistic children. We worked with actual autism experts who run autism treatment centers, and we designed lessons and a curriculum for our product to teach basic social skills to autistic kids (by basic, I'm talking things like "when you greet someone: smile, nod, say hello"). Yes, I'm being vague about what the product actually is because I don't want to 100% tie this account to my real-life identity, but I can tell you that it's unique and got a lot of buzz. I had a lot of issues with the company's management (for both technical and non-technical reasons), which is why I quit, but one of the reasons I stayed as long as I did was because I believed in the idea of the product, and I felt that it was going to truly change people's lives for the better. It really made me feel the warm fuzzies when a friend of mine (well, more of a friend of a friend, but we knew each other) who has two autistic children one day sent me a message on Facebook saying "I just noticed that you work for [company]!", and she was super-excited to realize that this person she knows works for a company that she follows in the news (and we were a tiny startup, so it's not like I worked for a big megacorp or anything).