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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Co-Regulation When You Live Alone
You regulate best around steady people but live alone, and dysregulation can spiral without anyone to anchor to
Steps
- Identify your co-regulators: a pet, a particular friend on voice note, a body-double video call, a familiar voice on a podcast
- Build a 'go-to' shortlist: 3-4 reliable regulators you can reach for in under 2 minutes, no decision needed
- Use parallel presence: a video call where you both just exist (cooking, working, watching). Connection without performance
- Add weighted or rhythmic input as a physical co-regulator: weighted blanket, slow rocking, walking with steady music
- When dysregulated, reach for one shortlist regulator first, before scrolling or self-isolating further
What you need
A small list of go-to regulators, ideally a weighted item, willingness to ask
Why it works
Co-regulation is how nervous systems were designed to settle. Living alone removes the ambient version, so building deliberate co-regulators (human, animal, sensory) replaces it before dysregulation locks in.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An autistic adult living alone used to spiral on Sunday evenings. A standing 7pm video call with a friend (both just cooking, barely talking) became the regulator that quietly fixed Sunday dread.
Troubleshooting
- Pets count. A cat on the lap is a legitimate nervous system intervention
- If asking feels too vulnerable in the moment, use a pre-agreed signal: 'hive five?' = please voice-note me
- If your shortlist is empty, that's the work: building one slow connection is more useful than 100 acquaintances
