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
Parent Guides
Glossary
Daily Challenges
Strategy Categories
Community
Toileting Challenges
Your child struggles with toilet training, has accidents, or refuses to use the toilet
Steps
- Check for sensory issues: is the toilet seat cold, the flush too loud, the bathroom echo frightening?
- Build interoception awareness: 'Can you feel your tummy telling you something?'
- Use a visual toilet sequence at the child's eye level in the bathroom
- Set regular 'toilet times' rather than waiting for them to tell you
- Celebrate every success, no matter how small. Never punish accidents
What you need
Visual toilet sequence, sensory modifications (padded seat, quieter flush), patience
Why it works
Toileting involves interoception (sensing internal body signals), motor planning, and coping with sensory aspects of the bathroom — all areas that challenge neurodivergent children. Addressing the specific barrier (sensory, interoceptive, or motor) makes progress possible where generic toilet training fails.
Age guidance
Neurodivergent children commonly toilet-train later than peers. There is no 'too old' — support your child at their pace without shame.
Real-world example
A parent discovered their child was terrified of the toilet flush sound. They let him flush manually, covered auto-flush sensors with a sticky note, and used ear defenders in public toilets. Within three months he was using the toilet independently at home.
Troubleshooting
- Toileting often takes longer for neurodivergent children. There's no 'too old' for support
- If they'll only go in a nappy, gradually transition: nappy on toilet → nappy open → no nappy
- Constipation is common and can cause accidents. Check with your GP if relevant
