Poor - no support and changes unpredictably
This is not usable as it currently stands. It is sad to see a charity endorsing a product that so obviously wasn’t ready for release.
Lots of typos throughout the app - not a respectful way to treat young people with ASD.
The game changed with no warning (from moles popping out to balloon popping) and the game is a poor format - same every time, no stretch for the child as the max score is so low. If your worries are long you can’t even read them when you are popping the balloons.
My child was also very upset that this app automatically upgraded with no warning. Surely for people with ASD who struggle with change this should have been considered and flagged? All his diary entries were wiped from before and the system wouldn’t allow me to recover the old profile.
Unreliable and no support from the makers when things go wrong.
Lots of typos throughout the app - not a respectful way to treat young people with ASD.
The game changed with no warning (from moles popping out to balloon popping) and the game is a poor format - same every time, no stretch for the child as the max score is so low. If your worries are long you can’t even read them when you are popping the balloons.
My child was also very upset that this app automatically upgraded with no warning. Surely for people with ASD who struggle with change this should have been considered and flagged? All his diary entries were wiped from before and the system wouldn’t allow me to recover the old profile.
Unreliable and no support from the makers when things go wrong.
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Removes social anxiety barrier of talking with a therapist. Excellent!
I’m an autistic woman who was diagnosed at age 28. My anxiety has been lifelong, and in my late 20s, was debilitating enough to go to a therapist. (My therapist was the one who clued me into autism.) Therapy didn’t last long, because I feel heightened anxiety whenever there is another person in the room. Given my barrier to therapy, this Molehill Mountain app is an incredibly valuable resource to me. Thank you to the creators and researchers behind it!
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Autism
I have autism. This application is amazing! Extremely helpful. Thank you
It’s Going Places
This app provides a really grounding experience for me to reflect on my day instead of just moving onto the bedtime routine and starting again in the morning. I do think the ability to remove worries would be helpful, since some are very situational and once the situation is past, seeing it pop up in the app can trigger the same anxiety even though it’s not applicable.
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Not Working As Needed
I love the concept, everything is set up nicely that I would use this consistently, but it doesn’t send notifications at my set reminder time. It has other mini issues such as the x button to get out of the large text boxes doesn’t work, and the anxiety scale doesn’t fit properly on my screen so I can’t read it or slide the scale. I would happily use this app again if those problems were fixed!
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DONT USE if you’re autistic!
The process is daunting. You have to fill in ‘activities’ and triggers yourself. But when you come back to use it and have to select which triggers and actions apply you can’t read you’ve previously entered because the text field on the selection buttons is too small and won’t expand. There’s only enough room for maybe two words. How can you explain a trigger or action in one or two words?! I clicked on ‘help’ to find a totally blank page, nothing, zero, no help of any sort. I looked for a way of ensuring I could unsubscribe from everything and make sure they kept no data but there’s only an email unsubscribe. So they gave me a massive acute anxiety attack when I realised I’d been scammed for some sort of research project. Maybe it’s designed to wind up autistic people as a psychological test to see what we’ll do? I don’t know but avoid this app and don’t let it give you an anxiety attack
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Old Man Bull 🌈♾review
I think this CBT-based app can be helpful in developing emotional literacy, learning to focus on the experience of the body and what is called mind, but it doesn’t really take into account that learning to think differently and avoid less is ultimately limiting as an approach. As an autistic man, I know that even having spent multiple years in yoga developing mindful practice, and after several years of psychotherapy, some situations provoke severe anxiety owing solely to the sensory, social and cognitive input (for want of a better turn of phrase!) and all I can do is choose to stay with that anxiety (accepting my thoughts, my experience and live with the fallout, in terms of stress) or avoid it. This app completely misses the need to identify as autistic and learning to self-advocate, to self-limit and say ‘Not today, do I want to be exposed to this neurotypical milieu!’ I couldn’t really see where the autistic adaptations were, except for asking me to think about worries connected to sensory input. Overall, not bad, 3 stars. But where’s the autistic input? ♾ 🌈😊
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Helpful
Overall this app has been helpful but there are a few things about it that I had concerns with, I'll put those after the main review. ✌️
Having an app that centers on autism and allows you to express things in autistic terms takes out a lot of the frustration i was feeling with other apps, The feeling of "no, that's not quite it, I'm being misunderstood here/this is not suited to my needs", which is great! That's maybe the biggest draw of this app for me.
Concerns:
First being that you get one check in and cannot alter it. I found myself concerned that I'd have a worry to log after the check in time, or that i'd forget a worry earlier in the day and not be accurately logging my anxiety.
Second, the worry graph. It doesn't seem to make sense. The description provided doesn't clarify what the two colors actually mean, or what they correspond to, and there is an additional bar for my anxieties tomorrow? As in, a day in the future? That I have not logged yet? And it is always very high compared to the others? I'm not sure what to make of this.
I'm aware these are nitpicky, but they're negatively impacting my experience so I thought I'd share.
Having an app that centers on autism and allows you to express things in autistic terms takes out a lot of the frustration i was feeling with other apps, The feeling of "no, that's not quite it, I'm being misunderstood here/this is not suited to my needs", which is great! That's maybe the biggest draw of this app for me.
Concerns:
First being that you get one check in and cannot alter it. I found myself concerned that I'd have a worry to log after the check in time, or that i'd forget a worry earlier in the day and not be accurately logging my anxiety.
Second, the worry graph. It doesn't seem to make sense. The description provided doesn't clarify what the two colors actually mean, or what they correspond to, and there is an additional bar for my anxieties tomorrow? As in, a day in the future? That I have not logged yet? And it is always very high compared to the others? I'm not sure what to make of this.
I'm aware these are nitpicky, but they're negatively impacting my experience so I thought I'd share.
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Won’t let me log in with old profile
Autistic persons nightmare ‘sudden change’ honesty, what have you done. I know it needed improvement but it is now also really buggy. I eventually set up a new profile and now it comes up with an error when I try to add activities. Please find old profiles so we can recover all our settings.
Hate the new changes
I find it overwhelming and more inaccessible now with all these added features. I don’t even know how to use it anymore and I can’t figure out how to change me worried. I hate graphs as a disabled person. I hate scales. There are too many questions to the point that I don’t know what to put where anymore. I think it needs to be simplified again. The breathing is good and I like the layout of the old tips better, but it’s actually distressing that if I don’t stick to a schedule I don’t get to read the new tip. I hate that.
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