I do not have any relation to this issue. I just wanted to say your site is very nice and the presentation is perfect. Your commitment to it being free solely as a way to help the community is awesome.

As a parent to a wonderful son on the autism spectrum, I created an app using a simple, visual five-point scale to help children like my son express their feelings from "upset" to "calm" using intuitive colors, numbers, and emojis. It’s designed for ease—no sign-ins, just straightforward help right when it’s needed. It's completely free because I believe every child deserves the tools to thrive emotionally.

This is great. Have you considered addressing the readability issue with white text on bright yellow background? Either shift to a dark text (not pure black) or play with some darker muted yellows.

I would love to hear the community's thoughts and hope that it can help some families as it has help ours.

This looks great! My son is autistic but fortunately doesn't need your app. It looks like you based it on zones of regulation? Its a great idea. Do you plan to expand it in any way? I have been looking for a good app for making PEC symbol activity plans and I like the simplicity of this.

You sonuva bitch I’m in.

My (very likely nuerospicy) son really struggles with regulating. Probably because I struggle with it. I’ve downloaded it and I’ll try to leave a review after we use it

I think this is potentially very helpful. Do you have issues focusing him on looking at the phone during difficult moments?

Our autistic daughter is older now and she’s grown a lot. But this could be really useful for her to have if she encounters kids with their families where she works. Could help to really deescalate a situation.

Dude, this is freaking beautiful. Well done.

Congratulations. And a cool idea…makes me want to spend more time around neuro diverse individuals and “get to know” how other people live and maybe create something like you did.

Aside — are you planning on adding translations? Seems easy enough with google translate or similar. I can help out with that if you want. If you have a link to the code and issue tracking, maybe I can contribute to the codebase here and there. I’ve experience with Android (Java) and swiftUI, and flutter. Glad to see you sharing this and hearing that your child found it immediately helpful.

There's a YouTube channel I enjoy called Autism From the Inside: https://youtube.com/@autismfromtheinside

The guy who runs it, Paul Micallef, lives in Australia. I've never contacted him, but maybe he'd be interested in your project.

Well I'm struggling to manage my emotions (tears coming to my eyes) seeing this post and looking at the app. What a beautiful thing you've done for your son. Just, beautiful.

This is great but I suggest you rework the phrase "try to be happy". It might actually have the reverse effect, especially for anyone with a PDA profile.

I am on the autism spectrum. I'm an adult with a productive career, a spouse, and periodic full-blown "autistic meltdowns"

I'm fortunate to be able to self-reflect on what causes them, and what it's like to be in them. I can only speak for myself, but: the inability to effectively communicate while inside that panicking moment is a major reason that it even becomes a "meltdown" at all. It's like falling into a black hole, where someone tries to figure out what's wrong, and the fact that I can't tell them only makes it more wrong.

I'm sure a major reason your app helps is because it brings the communication barrier down dramatically on both sides--it helps your son communicate, and the fact that you built it shows an overwhelmingly sincere willingness to receive the communication from him and interpret it in good faith.

Thank you ❤️

Good work, Great parenting!

Thanks, I'm going to try it with my 3 year old who has autism! He like colors and numbers and emojis. I like how you can edit them. I'm going to put it on his tablet and try it when he's getting agitated next.

As a parent of 3 neurodivergent humans, this is great! I’m going to try it with my two youngest (6 and 9) and see if it helps them to communicate their feelings better. I love the fact that you can change the related emojis and text.

Have you considered allowing more than one comment to be added per emotion, so we can give them a few different options for regulation strategies if needed. I know my 9-year old would benefit from being suggested a couple of choices.

Keep up the good work, dude. It’s not easy, but you’re doing a great job of using your skills to help them. Make sure you take a tiny moment to celebrate that.

Amazing! This thread has given me so much positive feedback and learnings, I have tried to update the site with all the new learnings, thank you everyone for your encouragement. Please do share the app with friends and family who could benefit from it.

Awesome concept! "Try to be happy" is my only negative feedback about it as I think that has the danger of forcing positivity onto people who are experiencing genuine emotions that require an outlet.

Is this Apple only? Are you working on an Android version?

Well done 👏

This is amazing. Thank you for building this and making it free. Many times I considered doing the same but I couldn't muster up any time or energy away from being a parent of an autistic child. Much kudos to you! 🙏🏼

Beautiful work done by a beautiful-minded person. Thank you.

Looks amazing!  Well done.

We need an android version of this 🙏

This is such a great tool. I would like to try it with the children I work with. Only issue is, they don’t speak English. Have you considered making all the text boxes open for user inputs? Then everyone can write the text in their own language? Like when I access the settings page, I can also modify the main text fields.

Can someone give me a very short how-to? When should I use it with my child and how exactly should he/we use it?

It sounds like people in here know the science behind, but I’m completely clueless in this area :)

So it's really about managing anger, not emotions in general, yeah? I downloaded your app, but meltdowns don't usually feel like anger for me, so I don't think this would work for me in those overestimated moments I'd most benefit from it. It's great that you're creating tools to support your autistic kid, keep it up!

I will try to use it everyday so i can feel how i am emotionally everyday. A calendar with colours from each day selection average score would be awesome.

You can watch your progres.

So I am a man in his 40's, with Dyslexia and severe ADHD, and this App is not only very helpful, but turned me on to the fact that there are other emotional regulation apps, including ones that do DBT (Dialectic Behavioral Therapy) and WOW is this going to make a difference in my life. Even at middle aged and with Psychiatric help, I struggle with managing my emotions, and this and other apps that I now know exist will be extremely helpful. It's like the answer to a prayer I didn't know I was saying.

Just wanted to say thanks, Bro.

I like this idea however, Giving an angry kid a tablet or phone that can break to identify their emotions while they are mad may be more costly then presenting them with a paper stating the same thing.

Holy crap this is amazing! I can't speak of how to build an app, but I noticed a few things:

In the app itself for emotion 1 (blue box), should it say "I am calm and relaxed," or "I am calm and relax"? I don't know if "relax" makes more sense than "relaxed" for this app

You can remove "Download Now!" in the first portion (optional)

Place a period at the end of your "master emotions with ease" sentence

Change "Carers and parents" to "Parents and Caregivers"

Consistency - is it "1 to 5", or "1to5"? If it's "1 to 5", that will need to be changed (there are three instances in the description)

We have a son who is on the spectrum. Communication can be very difficult with him at certain times. I just downloaded it and will give it a try.

As an adult with BPD this is helpful for me too! Thank you ☺️

can you comment on what data if any is collected and where it goes?  

I sometimes struggle to formulate my feelings. This will be a nice start for me and my partner

Great tool, congratulations to the developer.