For fathers, and whoever else carries it

What might the next twenty years look like?

A questionnaire for fathers of autistic children, and anyone else who does the carrying. It asks about where your son or daughter is today, then lays out the range of what the years ahead could hold, and which of it you can actually move.

Read this before you start

No one can tell you what your child will be like at thirty. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. The research this is built on describes groups of children, and a group average says almost nothing certain about one person.

So this does not give you a number. It gives you a range, honestly drawn, and it names the handful of things that decide where inside that range you end up. That is a smaller promise than a prediction. It is also the true one, and it turns out to be the more useful of the two.

What it asks about

How he communicates and how much he understands, reading, being with other people, doing things for himself, hard days and what surrounds them, his body, what he loves, what support exists around him, and four questions about you.

How long

Around fifteen minutes, one question at a time. It adapts as it goes, so a six-year-old and a sixteen-year-old get different forms. You can stop and come back; it remembers.

Where your answers go

Nowhere. Everything stays in this browser. There is no account, no server, and no one else reading this. Clearing the page clears the answers.

This is not a diagnostic tool and not medical advice. It does not replace an assessment by someone who has met your child.