Sensory & Regulation Tools for Neurodivergent Minds
Autistic & neurodivergent adults · parents · educators
Autism and neurodiversity is the core of MNEURIX, not a side pillar. The tools here externalise what interoception can miss — rising sensory load, stress before it becomes a meltdown — and every one is no-signup and runs locally. The self-reflection tools send answers once for interpretation and store nothing, plainly disclosed. Research-cited, honest about limits, built for minds like it — with education as the point.
Everything on this pillar shares one premise: tools that help with the moment, honest about what they can and cannot tell you. Two kinds of help live here — tools for hard moments, and tools for understanding your own mind. Both are free, both run locally in your browser, and neither needs an account.
If this is a hard moment, start with the quiet pages. Recovery Mode is a deliberately near-empty page built for meltdowns and shutdowns — one line at a time, no color, no motion, stopping always allowed. Calm Corner walks a feeling through, for when words need company. The Breathing Pacer gives your eyes something steady to follow.
If the hard moments keep coming, the noticing tools externalize what internal signals can miss: the Sound Level Meter shows what your environment is actually doing, the Sensory Overload Meter learns your personal threshold, the Early-Warning Tracker turns burnout research into a two-minute weekly check-in, and the Energy Ledger tracks what each day really drains.
If the question is who you are, the self-understanding tools are honest about their limits. The Big Five and Jungian inventories measure traits and preferences — they are not a diagnosis, and this site is not a diagnostic service. The unmasking suite was built for the late-diagnosed and the self-identifying: what masking costs, which preferences are yours rather than performed, and what a stress response was doing for you. Formal identification is a separate decision with real trade-offs — we map that question, without a verdict, in Am I autistic? A map without a verdict. Nothing on this site gates on a diagnosis, and nothing here can tell you whether you are autistic.
The long-form versions of every idea on this pillar live in the essay section — burnout, sleep, monotropism, disclosure — learned from autistic adults' own accounts. The doing-shaped versions live in the guides section — plain step-by-step pages for the day itself. Every tool below ends with a "where to go next" section naming its companions; there is no wrong door into this page.
Projects
- Live toolLive loudness + the frequency bands research links to auditory overload (250 Hz, 8 kHz). Mic audio never leaves the page.
Rests on: Antecedent-based intervention — 49 studies: measuring the environment in order to change it.
- Live toolFree, offline noise generation with an honest tolerance check — masking helps many, not everyone.
Rests on: Antecedent-based intervention — 49 studies, changing what comes before rather than what follows.
- Live toolOne visible number for sensory load that learns YOUR personal threshold from feedback. Local-only history.
Rests on: Self-management — 26 studies, as a noticing aid. It rates how things feel; it does not diagnose anything.
- Live toolVisual coherent / box / 4-7-8 pacer with a reduced-motion fallback. No streaks, no notifications.
Rests on: Exercise and movement — 17 studies, which covers paced breathing and mindful movement.
- Live tool60-second check-in that turns vague stress into a visible gauge + your own coping list. SAM-mechanism, RCT-cited.
Rests on: Self-management — 26 studies: noticing your own state, then recording it.
- Live toolA deliberately near-empty page for meltdowns and shutdowns: dim, one line at a time, safe stops.
Rests on: Antecedent-based intervention — 49 studies: arranging the environment so a hard moment is less likely to build.
- Live toolFeeling-first regulation for kids and grown-ups: pick a feeling, get a matched calming activity. Web edition of the Neuro-M app experience.
Rests on: Cognitive behavioural/instructional strategies — 50 studies: name what you feel, then use a step-by-step response.
- Live toolA slow synthesized heartbeat to ground on — visual pulse, optional sound, color you can change.
Rests on: Exercise and movement — 17 studies, for mindful movement. Deliberately not an interoception-accuracy claim: a 2025 meta-analysis of 31 studies found no such difference in autistic adults.
- Live toolNine fidgets in one board; every sound synthesized live. From the Neuro-M app family.
Rests on: Visual supports — 65 studies, for a visual display that carries a routine without extra prompts.
- Live toolSand, water, slime, glow, sparks, fireworks — a canvas that answers your hands.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolA tiny physics world: balls, confetti, snow, bubbles. Tilt to steer.
Rests on: Exercise and movement — 17 studies, for movement-based regulation.
- Live toolTen gentle brushes from pen to galaxy. Saves stay on your device only.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolTap-to-speak needs & core-words board with a gentle wait timer and room for your own photos. From the Neuro-M app family.
Rests on: Augmentative and alternative communication — 44 studies, which includes speech-generating boards and the coaching that teaches their use.
- Live toolTwo giant buttons for the hardest moments — tap and the device says it. No setup, bookmarkable, nothing stored.
Rests on: Augmentative and alternative communication — 44 studies: a yes or a no is the smallest possible utterance a board can support, and often the first one.
- Live toolStep-by-step visual routine builder & First/Then board with voice prompts and printable layouts. 100% browser-based.
Rests on: Visual supports — 65 studies; visual schedules are named in the practice description. Task analysis (13 studies) also applies.
- Live toolA first-then choice board: build a 2-4 step path, tap to hear it spoken, show it big for a grown-up.
Rests on: Antecedent-based intervention — 49 studies. Learner choice is named directly in the practice definition.
- Live toolPhrase board - 'I'm hungry', 'More please' - plus gentle facts for curious kids. Speaks with your browser's voice.
Rests on: Augmentative and alternative communication — 44 studies. A phrase board with spoken output is the aided-communication practice the review describes.
- Live toolA 'what to watch' choice board: plain labels you replace with your own photos; taps speak the pick.
Rests on: Visual supports — 65 studies: concrete cues for choosing an activity.
- Live toolSpeak a note and get editable text you can keep. For when talking is easier than typing — and for catching a thought before it goes. Nothing stored by us.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolTap the critters before they hide — a gentle reaction game. All sounds synthesized live. From the Neuro-M app family.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolWatch the pattern light up, tap it back — musical Simon-style play with no fail states.
Rests on: Modelling — 28 studies: a demonstration, then the learner performs it.
- Live toolGuide the worm to the fruit with a finger — a gentle canvas motion game that grows with every bite.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolA tap-to-play xylophone with five gentle instrument voices and a bubble mode. No wrong notes.
Rests on: Music-mediated intervention — 7 studies.
- Live toolTap rising bubbles to play melodies — five instrument timbres, endless gentle play.
Rests on: Music-mediated intervention — 7 studies.
- Live toolFlip emoji cards to find matching pairs — no timer, no losing, progress saved on your device.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolTouch and move to create symmetrical magic on a canvas — mirrored strokes that glow and bloom.
Rests on: Music-mediated intervention — 7 studies, the thinnest evidence base of the practices cited on this site.
- Live toolSelf-authored masking-effort assessment (Compensating / Concealing / Conforming) with a named profile — grounded in published research, not any copyrighted questionnaire. Server-side scoring.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolMaps natural preferences against performed ones across five axes; the gap is the Bend — where masking spends you. Type-curious readers recognize the shapes; no branded type anywhere.
Rests on: Antecedent-based intervention — 49 studies, for incorporating learner choice into what happens next.
- Live toolStress-as-competence reframing: describe a response (frozen, blue screen, long crash) and read what the system was competently doing and what it needs now. Cited, safety-railed.
Rests on: Self-management — 26 studies, for discriminating between states and recording them accurately.
- Live toolA weekly check-in against the published autistic-burnout early signs, with a local trend and honest banding. Not a screener — a self-knowledge tool with crisis signposting.
Rests on: Self-management — 26 studies, which is exactly this: noticing and recording your own signals.
- Live toolBudget the charge: log drains and recharges, tag the masking costs, get an honest reading. Spoon-theory lineage credited, own units.
Rests on: Self-management — 26 studies, for self-monitoring and self-recording over time.
- Live toolGradual, safety-first micro-practices ordered by stakes for the contexts you pick. Unmasking is not disclosure everywhere; every rung is opt-in.
Rests on: Task analysis — 13 studies: breaking a chained skill into steps taken one at a time.
- Live toolMonotropism-informed recharge mapper: name your attention tunnels, get a flow profile and a recharge menu. Deep interests are legitimate needs.
Rests on: Self-management — 26 studies, for recording your own patterns across days rather than judging a single moment.
- Live toolFree, scientific 50-item OCEAN test (public-domain IPIP).
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolResearch-grade 30-facet OCEAN profile (IPIP-NEO-120, Johnson 2014). ~30 min, save-progress.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Live toolFour-letter cognitive type (INTJ–ESFP) from self-authored Jungian items. Not the MBTI®.
Rests on: Not built on a named evidence-based practice.
- Researched essaysMonotropism, autistic burnout, masking, sleep & sensory regulation, the accommodation tax — researched, cited.