ADHD & Autism Support That Fits How Your Brain Actually Works
Understood, not broken.
Thriive is the support app for ADHD and autistic brains — and the whole household behind them. Track your patterns, find strategies that actually fit, and walk into every appointment with evidence. For yourself, or for your child.
What changes with Thriive
Without Thriive
- Going through life believing you're broken
- Falling behind and never understanding why
- Slipping through the cracks of a system not built for you
- Trying everything and still feeling stuck
With Thriive
- Understanding how your brain actually works
- Confidence to advocate for what you need
- Strategies that actually fit, not generic advice
- Knowing you're not the problem
How Thriive supports ADHD and autistic people
- Pattern Tracker: Log a tough moment in 30 seconds. Thriive surfaces the patterns behind it — your triggers, your hardest times of day, what helps.
- Strategy Library: 130+ real strategies for ADHD and autism, matched to your neurotype and the time you've got. Not generic advice.
- Smart Strategies: Describe what's going on and Thriive builds a strategy around you — or around your child.
- Visual Routine Builder: Step-by-step routines for the moments that usually go sideways. Mornings, transitions, winding down.
- Daily Check-ins: A 30-second mood check that builds a picture of how you're really doing over time.
- Shareable Reports: Take real evidence to your GP, school, workplace, or therapist when it matters.
One app for the whole neurodivergent household
For adults
Understand your own brain. Build evidence for assessments and workplace adjustments. Stop feeling like you're figuring it out alone.
For parents
Spot the patterns behind the hard days. Advocate with confidence at school and with doctors. Strategies matched to your child, not a textbook.
For children
Feel seen. Understand how your own brain works. Build a profile that's yours.
Neurodivergent conditions Thriive supports
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A Worry Window
For when worries leak into everything. You can't focus, sleep, or enjoy anything because your brain keeps returning to the same anxious loop
Steps
- Pick a fixed 15-minute 'worry window' at the same time each day, ideally not right before bed. This is when worrying is allowed
- When a worry pops up outside the window, don't argue with it. Jot it in a note ('deadline, mum's health') and tell yourself: 'Not now. I'll get to you at 6'
- At your window, read the list and actually let yourself worry. Most items feel smaller in daylight; some have already sorted themselves
- For anything still live, ask: 'What is one tiny thing in my control?' Do it or schedule it. The rest goes back on the list
- When the 15 minutes are up, close the note and change your state: stand up, music, cold water. The window is shut
What you need
A notes app or scrap of paper, a 15-minute slot, a timer
Why it works
Rumination thrives on 'I must deal with this NOW'. Postponing to a set window keeps the worry from being suppressed (which backfires) while stripping away its urgency. By the time the window arrives, the emotional charge has usually faded and the thinking brain is back online. It's a core CBT technique, and it suits neurodivergent brains because it externalises the loop onto paper instead of relying on willpower.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An autistic adult lay awake most nights cycling through the same three worries. They started keeping a worry note by the bed and a 6pm window. Writing 'work email, dentist, money' and promising to revisit it let them actually sleep, and by 6pm two of the three had already resolved themselves.
Troubleshooting
- If a worry genuinely can't wait ('the appointment is in an hour'), that's a task, not a worry, so do the next small step now
- If you can't stop at 15 minutes, set a second alarm and physically leave the spot where you worry
- If night-time is worst, keep the note by the bed: 'written down' tells the brain it is safe to let go until morning