MeAsmi
Match on symptoms, not on labels
The best advice in neurodivergent care gets traded between parents in therapy waiting rooms, and then it dies there. One mother tells another what finally got her son sleeping through the night, and that stays in the room. MeAsmi catches it, gives it structure, and makes it searchable by what a child is actually experiencing rather than the label on the file.
A diagnosis tells you very little about what will help
Autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, Down syndrome and intellectual disability overlap heavily in how they present, and response to therapy is intensely individual. Two children with the same words on the same form can need completely opposite things, so starting from the label costs families years.
- The highest quality information is parent to parent. It is anecdotal, it is specific, and it is trapped in the room where it was spoken.
- Families cycle through therapy after therapy with almost nothing to tell them whether this one is likely to fit their child.
- The resources that do exist are organized by diagnosis, written in general terms, or published by whoever is selling the service.
- Clinics keep structured records, but nothing learns across clinics, and what happens at home between sessions is never captured at all.
- Outcome data attached to every referral you consider.
- Families matched on profile, finding each other by default.
- What worked recorded once and reusable by everyone after.
- Therapists tuning practice against field-wide evidence.
A parent should be able to ask one question. Severe sensory defensiveness, almost no speech, broken sleep: what helped children like mine? Nothing today can answer that.
Five moving parts
- 1
Symptoms and severity, in plain language
Record what your child is actually experiencing and how intense it is. No medical training needed. This is what the matching runs on, and the diagnosis is not.
- 2
What you tried and what it did
Log every therapy attempted, from ABA and OT to speech, AAC, medication, diet changes, routines and sensory integration, with what improved, what got worse, and what simply stopped moving.
- 3
Find children like yours
Search by symptom cluster and severity, narrow by age or region, and see what worked for children who genuinely resemble yours, including ones carrying a different diagnosis.
- 4
Or search the other way round
Pick an intervention and see which symptom profiles reported real gains from it, and which ones it tends to do nothing for. Both directions matter.
- 5
A care journal you can hand over
Everything tried, in order, with how it went, exportable as a clean summary for the next appointment. It stays yours, and it leaves when you say so.
The waiting room conversation, rebuilt so it reaches every family instead of the four people who happened to be sitting there that afternoon.
- Symptoms
- What the matching runs on
- Anonymous
- Identity is never the product
- Outcomes
- Not popularity