Autism tracking · School & Home
When school says they're fine and home says otherwise
"He's absolutely fine here." Probably the most exhausting sentence in the entire process, and usually both true and beside the point. Holding it together all day is not the absence of difficulty, it is the cost of it — and the bill arrives at half past three in your hallway. Masking at school and collapse at home are one phenomenon, but they get reported by two different people who never see the other half.
For parents and carers of a child who presents differently in each setting.
Why this is hard to keep track of
- The setting that sees the difficulty isn't the setting that decides the support
- "Fine at school" and "meltdown at four" get filed as two unrelated facts
- Evidence from home gets treated as anecdote unless it's structured and dated
- The pattern runs over months, and meetings run on the last fortnight
Worth recording
- How the school day was reported, in their words
- What the first hour at home looked like
- Time to recovery after getting in
- Weekends and holidays, which are the closest thing to a control group
Cadence
One line after school, most days
In practice
Say it once, in whatever words you have
The moments most worth recording are the ones where filling in a form is the least realistic thing in the world. A sentence, typed or dictated afterwards, is a much lower bar — and it carries the context a checkbox would have lost.
Called 4 tools
log_setting(setting: "school", reported: "good day")log_setting(setting: "home", event: "meltdown", duration_min: 20)log_recovery(non_speaking_until: "18:00")compare_periods(metric: "home_events", split: "school_report")
Every figure here was counted from entries you made. The model picked which tools to call — it doesn't interpret, diagnose, or decide what anything means about anyone.
And then ask
The question the log can answer
Months of entries hold real answers to the questions you've been guessing at, and reading them properly has always meant a spreadsheet and a free evening — which is not a thing anyone in this situation has.
Ask in plain language. The answers come back with the numbers behind them, including when those numbers are too thin to mean anything yet — which is the more useful answer more often than people expect.
Called 3 tools
get_history(topic: "school-and-home", window: "6m")find_pattern(group_by: "antecedent")compare_periods(metric: "events")
Counts and averages over your own entries, nothing more. Where the data is confounded or too thin, the answer says so instead of rounding it into a conclusion.
The reason most people start
Something to actually bring to the appointment
You get fifteen minutes, once, after waiting months for it. The questions are specific and the honest answers are all some version of "I don't know, it's hard to say".
What this gives you: A term of paired days — what school reported, what happened at home — which is the specific evidence these meetings are usually missing.
- Export the date range you were asked about, as a file you can print
- Counts and timings rather than an impression of the worst week
- Your own notes kept alongside the numbers, in your words
- Nothing shared anywhere unless you choose to share it
What it won't do
- Diagnose anything, or suggest that it could
- Score a person, or rank them against anyone else
- Set a target for fewer events, or a streak of good days
- Recommend a treatment, a therapy, a diet or a medication change
- Share your record with a school, a clinician or anyone else on its own
It's a notebook that can do arithmetic and answer questions about itself. Deciding what any of it means is a job for you and the people advising you.
Early access
Start with what you're already trying to hold in your head
Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you — recording the thing that's actually useful, at a cadence that survives a bad week.
- 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
Also tracked
The rest of the picture
These overlap constantly, which is the point — the answer to a question about one of them is very often sitting in another one's 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
Keep the record without it becoming another job
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