Tally Mark System

Here's a simple spreadsheet template for documenting or exploring three things:

When did major life events happen? Are any of them potentially connected? (Also contains info on NT developmental milestones to help with any cross-referencing against what you remember- this has occasionally helped with pinpointing the date range of an event.)

Who's in your head? What information is useful to know about them?

What decisions should you make?

Feel free to edit, share, etc. as much as you'd like- consider this set of sheets to be CC0. Every system has their own needs, and you might need more or less or different information than these sheets provide space for.

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!