Understand instead of guessing.

How you function has reasons.

They're explainable.

Safe AI for autistic people. No personal data required. No tracking.

No ABA. No normalization. No deficit framing.

988 automated safety tests confirm: This AI is safe - for everyone who uses it.

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Inner View

Understand yourself

You're autistic - or suspect you are - and don't always understand why you react the way you do. Inner View explains the mechanism behind it. No advice. No 'You should try.' Just explanation.

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Outer View

Understand autistic people around you

Your child, colleague, student reacts in ways you don't understand. Outer View explains the neurological mechanism - whether you're a parent, employer, teacher, or caregiver.

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The app I needed as a child.

Inner View - for autistic people

You

I met someone who's also autistic for the first time - and it feels like something is wrong. Not because it's bad, but because it's too easy. No translating, no explaining, no filtering. I've never experienced this. I keep waiting for it to stop. Why does something good feel so wrong?

Autistic Mirror

What you're describing has a neurological reason - and it's not about the other person. It's about your nervous system.

Autistic communication is often direct, literal, and low-context. When two people share the same processing logic, the translation work disappears. What you say lands the way you mean it. What you don't say doesn't need explaining. That's not deception - that's compatibility at the level of information processing.

In most of your previous relationships, closeness ran through eye contact, small talk, and implicit signals. Autistic co-regulation works differently. This means: nervous systems calm each other - often through parallel presence. Being in the same room without forcing interaction. That creates safety without cognitive cost.

The intensity you're feeling isn't responding to danger. It's responding to novelty. Your nervous system only knows relationships with translation overhead. That closeness can work without effort has no reference point in your system yet.

The waiting for it to stop is a protective response - your predictive coding is looking for the catch. Your brain predicts outcomes based on past experience - and past experience always had one.

Outer View - for parents of autistic children

You

My child had a meltdown at the supermarket. It wasn't even loud. Completely out of nowhere.

Autistic Mirror

It didn't come out of nowhere. Autistic brains don't filter sensory input automatically - fluorescent lighting, floor vibrations, other people's movements, smells, temperature are all processed individually. It adds up.

What your child experienced: Their nervous system reached a load threshold. The meltdown was a neurological discharge - not a reaction to a single trigger and not defiance.

What this means: Your child couldn't react differently in that moment. The behavior wasn't chosen, it was a protective mechanism. Next time you notice your child getting quieter or moving more than usual - those are early signs that the load is building.

Environment - for employers, teachers, caregivers

You

My autistic colleague always suddenly leaves the room during meetings. It comes across as rude.

Autistic Mirror

That's not a social signal. It's a neurological necessity.

Meetings combine multiple stressors simultaneously: changing speakers, eye contact expectations, background noise, social rules for speaking up, fluorescent lighting. Autistic brains don't filter these stimuli automatically - each one is processed individually.

When sensory and cognitive load exceeds processing capacity, withdrawal is a protective response. The alternative would be a shutdown - a state where thinking and speaking become temporarily impossible.

What can help: Short meetings (max 30 min), camera-optional for video calls, scheduled breaks, share agendas in advance. Your colleague doesn't leave the room because they're not interested in the topic. They leave because their nervous system has no other option.

Why this app exists

You're autistic. You know that. Or you suspect it. What you don't always know: why your brain is doing what it's doing right now.

Why you're so exhausted after a normal work day that you can't speak anymore. Why a change of plans feels like a system crash. Why you're stuck on a situation from three days ago while everyone else has moved on.

Why you suddenly understand what someone meant three days after a conversation. Your brain processes social information more deeply. That takes time. It's not a deficit. It's monotropism. This means: attention that focuses on fewer things at once - but more deeply.

You know the feeling: "That's just how I am." Usually followed by: "And it's probably wrong."

It's not wrong. It's neurology. And it's explainable.

Or you're not autistic. But someone in your life is. Your child, your student, your colleague. You want to understand what's happening in that brain. Not guess. Not interpret. Understand.

Why this app doesn't exist yet +

Autistic adults wait years for a therapy spot. If they find one at all that understands autism. In the meantime: no explanation. No framework. Just your own experience without context.

Parents of autistic children face the same vacuum. Their child reacts in ways they can't categorize. Guidebooks say "Every child is different." Therapists are overloaded. Nobody explains the mechanism.

The research that explains autism from the inside exists. Monotropism, Predictive Coding - how your brain constantly makes predictions about the world. The Double Empathy Problem - the mutual misunderstanding between autistic and neurotypical people. This isn't fringe knowledge. But these theories are stuck in academic journals. Monotropism only received a validated questionnaire in 2023. Nobody has ever translated these insights into a form that an autistic person can use at their kitchen table.

On top of that: The entire digital market is focused on children. The average age in studies on digital autism interventions is 10.6 years. Tiimo, Goblin Tools, Brain in Hand - daily life aids, not explanation tools. Autistic adults are practically invisible in the digital product landscape.

Most autism apps fall into two categories. Behavior management tools that teach autistic people to appear more neurotypical. Or parent apps that deliver checklists and ABA-adjacent strategies. This means: behavior modification through conditioning. Both treat autism as a problem to be solved. Not as neurology that can be understood.

The reason: Most autism tools are built by non-autistic people. By people who observed autism from the outside - as therapists, researchers, parents. That perspective produces tools that correct behavior instead of explaining experience. That's the Double Empathy Problem in product form.

What Autistic Mirror does

This app explains what's happening in your brain. Not what you should do. Not what you should feel. But why.

Sensory filtering is active cognitive work. After hours of masking - hiding autistic responses to appear neurotypical - your nervous system has spent that energy. The collapse afterward isn't sensitivity - it's the receipt for processing effort nobody sees.

Why interruptions cost you more than others - not because you're inflexible, but because monotropic attention focuses deeper and every context switch is a complete rebuild.

Your pattern recognition system can't voluntarily end unfinished thought processes (loops). That's why unresolved situations linger for days. It's not ruminating. It's an ongoing cognitive process that consumes energy until it's completed.

The difference between "That's just how I am" and "My brain works this way, and there's a reason for it" is the difference between isolation and self-understanding.

What problems this solves +

For autistic people (Inner View)

The explanation vacuum You know you function differently. Nobody has explained how - in terms that make sense to your brain. Autistic Mirror provides mechanistic explanations instead of vague advice.

The wrongness feeling Years of trained shame about how you think and react. The app replaces "I'm wrong" with "My nervous system prioritizes prediction accuracy - and that has concrete consequences right now."

Meltdown and shutdown Not "Calm down." Instead: Your sensory system is above processing capacity. That's a neurological state. Not a character flaw.

Post-situation processing Why you think about a situation for three days that's long over for everyone else. Explained through monotropism and deep processing. Not through "You think too much."

For the environment (Outer View)

The translation problem Autistic people can't always explain what's happening inside. The app translates observable behavior into neurological mechanisms. Equally relevant for parents, partners, and colleagues.

Away from behavior correction Instead of 'How do I get this person to do X,' the app explains the neurological reason why X isn't possible right now. Applies to children, adult partners, and colleagues.

Bridging the Double Empathy Problem Autistic and neurotypical people live in different neurological realities. Autistic Mirror builds the bridge - not by adapting the autistic person, but by explaining their side.

Understanding sensory needs Why certain environments, sounds, or routine changes are problematic. Explained through sensory processing, not through 'being difficult.' Relevant for shared living, workplace design, and family life.

Why an external source +

You can't fully understand yourself from the inside. Not because you're lacking something, but because your autistic experience is your only frame of reference. You don't know that other people filter background noise automatically - because you've never experienced that. You don't know that plan changes aren't an energy problem for neurotypical brains - because you have no comparison.

An external explanation gives you what self-reflection alone can't: a framework that categorizes your experience as neurologically coherent. Not as a defect. Not as a character flaw. As a variation with mechanisms that can be understood.

This isn't about adapting yourself. It's about understanding your inner world - and from that understanding, deciding what you do with the world out there. Strengthening the inside, instead of exclusively bending yourself to fit the outside.

This doesn't replace therapy. But it fills the years while you're waiting for one.

Who built this

Aaron Wahl is autistic. He didn't read about the feeling of wrongness in studies. He lived it. For years.

WEconomy Diversity Leader 2025 - for personal commitment to neurodiversity 137+ Keynotes on Neurodiversity Featured on ARD and NDR Published in Report Psychologie Member of Rotaract & Rotary

He was declared permanently unable to work and placed under legal guardianship in his early twenties. He knows what it feels like to feel fundamentally wrong - in a world whose rules everyone else understands intuitively.

He also knows what happens when you start to understand. Over ten years, he went through three identity realignments - from "hopeless case" through the diagnosis that explained everything, to grasping that his brain doesn't need to be fixed, but understood.

He knows both sides of the communication gap. He knows what it feels like when neurotypical explanations don't land. Not because you don't understand them. But because they explain the wrong things.

This app exists because he's walked the same path. Autistic experience, scientific context, and the attempt to translate both into language that makes sense to autistic brains.

The knowledge framework covers over 40 specialized concepts from current autism research - from sensory processing and polyvagal theory to monotropism and predictive coding to autistic burnout and masking. Presented the way autistic brains process information best: direct, without social softeners.

Four hearts showed me that unconditional love is possible. That my words can make a difference. This app is my attempt to pass that on.