Autism tracking
Tracking to understand, not to change someone
Behavior, meltdowns and shutdowns, stimming, sensory triggers, tics, mood and sleep — recorded by describing them in a sentence, so a pattern becomes visible and the next appointment has something real in it.
Where this comes from
The habit-tracker model is wrong for most of this
Which is worth being explicit about, because habits.chat is a habit tracker and these pages are the part of it that deliberately doesn't work that way.
Stimming is regulation
It's the tool being used to cope, not a behavior to reduce. There is no target and no streak on that page, and there never will be — what a log is for is reading a change in stimming as the early signal it usually is.
Tics are involuntary
No amount of tracking makes a tic stop, and anything implying otherwise has misunderstood it. Tracking is for medication reviews and for telling real change apart from the natural waxing and waning.
A meltdown isn't a choice
It's a nervous system past capacity, and the trigger is rarely the cause — it's the last thing on top of a load that had been building all day. That load is the thing worth finding.
Written with identity-first language, for autistic adults tracking their own patterns and for the people who care for someone else — often both at once.
What people track
Pages for each of these
They overlap constantly, which is the point — the answer to a question about meltdowns is very often in the sleep data.
Behavior Tracking
Logged when there's a hand free, or dictated afterwards
Meltdowns & Shutdowns
Logged afterwards, when there's capacity — never during
Stimming
Noted when something changes, not counted all day
Sensory Triggers
Noted in the moment where possible, reviewed monthly
Tics
A rough note daily or weekly. Precision is not what makes this useful
Mood & Capacity
Once a day, in under a minute
Sleep
Two lines at night, one in the morning
School & Home
One line after school, most days
The reason most people start
"How often does this happen?"
Asked in every appointment, and unanswerable from memory. Not because you weren't paying attention — because you were living it, and the weeks that stay with you are the worst ones rather than the representative ones.
A log turns that into a number with a date range attached. It's a small thing that turns out to change the conversation, because a count is difficult to wave away and a recollection is not.
- Export any date range as a file you can print or attach
- Counts and averages, not an impression of the worst fortnight
- Your notes kept alongside the numbers, in your own words
- Nothing leaves your account unless you send it somewhere
Called 3 tools
get_history(topic: "meltdowns", since: "2026-03-01")find_pattern(group_by: "antecedent")export_data(range: "2026-03-01..today", format: "pdf")
Counted from your own entries. What any of it means is a conversation for Thursday, not something this decides.
Questions
The ones worth asking
Is this trying to reduce stimming or stop behaviors?
No, and it won't help you set that as a goal. Stimming is self-regulation, and suppressing it moves the cost somewhere else rather than removing it. There are no reduction targets and no streaks anywhere in this section — tracking here is for finding the conditions around a person, so those can change instead.
Is it a medical or diagnostic tool?
No. It's a notebook that can do arithmetic and answer questions about itself. It doesn't diagnose, doesn't recommend treatment, and isn't a substitute for a clinician. What it's for is giving you something concrete to bring to the people who can act on it.
I'm tracking for my child. Whose data is that?
The account is yours and so is the record. It isn't used to train a model, isn't sold, and isn't shared with a school, a clinician or anyone else unless you send it to them. You can export or delete all of it at any time.
Can I use it to self-track as an autistic adult?
Yes, and these pages are written for that as much as for parents. The mood page in particular is built around alexithymia rather than around a five-point scale of faces, which is an unanswerable question for a lot of people.
Will an AI decide what my child's behavior means?
No. The model chooses which operations to run against your record and the app does the counting, so the figures are counts and averages over what you logged. It doesn't interpret behavior, form clinical opinions, or decide what anything signifies about anyone.
What if the data is too thin to say anything?
Then it says so. Answering "two days into a dose change is too early to read" is more useful than producing a confident number from eleven data points, and it's how these answers are written.
Does this work alongside a paper ABC chart or a school log?
It's meant to replace the paper one, mostly because paper charts get filled in properly for a week and then live in a drawer. If school keeps its own record, the school-and-home page is specifically about holding both and comparing them.
Early access
Start with one thing
Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you. If you've already abandoned a paper chart or three, that's useful information rather than a confession.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no notifications designed to make you feel behind
- Export everything you've logged whenever you want
Keep the record without it becoming another job
Founding pricing is locked for accounts opened during early access.
Founding accounts lock their price for life. No card required.