✿ Seated within two days · free forever

A strong community

Save your seat today and you don't join a waitlist. Within two days your seat opens: you can sign in, meet the families already here — nine countries so far — and your mosaic starts quietly finding your closest matches. The community grows around its founders; it doesn't keep them waiting.

💚 100% non-profit · 🔒 Data protected · 🤫 Totally private

Your seat opens within two days of saving it.
Your sign-in details arrive by email — then you're inside, at your own pace.

Free forever · anonymous if you like · leave anytime · your email is used only for your sign-in and welcome note, never shared or sold.

What founding families shape

🏷️ The rooms

Sixteen chat groups exist on day one — the founders decide which thrive, which get renamed, and which new rooms open. Ask, and a room appears.

📖 The first stories

The first ten storytellers anchor the tone of this place for every family who arrives after. That's not a burden — it's authorship.

🗂️ The guides

Every guide section — diagnosis, school, sleep, money, marriage — will be grown from what founders share, then organised by the editorial team with names removed.

⚖️ The culture

The eight commitments are written. How they're lived — moderation pledges, what "kind and honest" feels like here — gets set by the founding voices.

What founders are asked to do

Nothing is required. This path is demanding enough, and reading quietly is a perfectly good way to be here. If and when you feel like it, these are the invitations:

  • Introduce yourself in New here (anonymously is fine).
  • Answer one other parent's question — you know more than you think.
  • Share one thing that actually helped your family — a tactic, a product, a sentence, a professional.
  • Post one bright moment — something your child made, said, or was proud of.
  • Tell one story, any length, about any part of the path.

You can be anonymous here

Your display name is whatever you choose — "A mum in Texas" is as welcome as a full name, and you can change it any time. Other members never see your email address. Your mosaic answers are used only for matching, are shown to your matches without your name attached unless you introduce yourself, and can be edited or emptied whenever you like.

What we do with your email

Two things, and only these: we send your sign-in details when your seat opens, and a short welcome note. There is no marketing list, no newsletter you didn't ask for, and your address is never shared or sold — that promise is in writing in the privacy pledge.

Who runs this?

Spectrum Path was started by one founder as a free, non-profit project, and it is built to be parent-only: every member inside the community is a parent or primary caregiver of an autistic child. You can read the founder's story and how the site is kept safe before deciding anything.

Know a parent who belongs here? The strongest invitation is yours, not ours — send them this page. Dads especially: the dads' section was designed so you'd actually stay.