A simple route from “something changes” to a useful daily record.
ASH is designed to help a family observe patterns over time without requiring a real name, location or advertising profile.
Create a carer account
Use an email for account access and password recovery.
Create a profile
A nickname is enough. A legal name is not required.
Check in
The young person answers when they want to. The goal is consistency, not pressure.
Build three comparable cycles
Regular daily recording lets ASH compare the days before menstruation with a post-menstrual reference window. ASH does not show a repeated-pattern summary until at least three completed cycles contain enough data for comparison.
Review & share
Use the longitudinal view during conversations with a professional if useful.
What gets recorded
ASH records the answers deliberately entered into the diary: daily symptom scores, menstrual bleeding/cycle information, supplementary observations and optional context fields available in the app.
Question sets
The 14 core wellbeing questions and the period/cycle question stay active for longitudinal tracking. For each child, the carer can separately enable or disable the 6 supplementary ASD/neurodevelopmental questions and the 3 safety questions. ASH records when an optional group was not asked so missing questions are not interpreted as low symptom scores or as a “no safety concern” response.
What ASH does not do
- It does not diagnose PMDD, PME, depression, ADHD, autism or another condition.
- It does not recommend changes to medication or treatment.
- It does not require a young person to complete a check-in.
- It does not contact emergency services or act as a live safety-monitoring system.
Why daily recording matters
A single difficult day — or even one difficult cycle — says little about a repeatable cycle-related pattern. ASH builds a prospective record and waits for at least three comparable completed cycles before showing a repeated-pattern summary. For each comparable cycle, the dashboard contrasts the seven days before the next period with cycle days 5–12. These windows are used for description and visualisation only.
PMDD, PME and autism
ASH is designed to help a carer preserve the timing of both core mood/functioning changes and autism-related experiences such as sensory sensitivity, executive difficulty, need for sameness, overwhelm and communication effort. Those supplementary domains remain separate from the core symptom set. A repeated premenstrual rise may be useful to discuss when PMDD or PME is being considered, but ASH does not decide which explanation applies.