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
Refusal & Defiance Response
Your child flat-out refuses to do something
Steps
- DON'T ENGAGE in a power struggle. You'll both lose
- Acknowledge their feeling: 'I can see you really don't want to do this'
- Offer a choice: 'Would you like to do it now or in 5 minutes?'
- State the natural consequence calmly: 'If you don't put shoes on, we can't go to the park'
- Walk away briefly if needed to give them processing time
What you need
Patience and pre-planned choices/consequences
Why it works
Children with ADHD and Autism often refuse because they're overwhelmed, not defiant. Their brain is saying 'I can't handle this demand right now.' Offering choices returns a sense of control, and stating consequences calmly removes the power struggle that escalates the situation.
Age guidance
Works for ages 3 and up. The choice-giving approach becomes even more important in the pre-teen years when autonomy is developmentally essential.
Real-world example
One parent shifted from 'put your shoes on NOW' to 'would you like to put them on here or by the front door?' The child resisted the demand but accepted the choice. It felt counterintuitive, but giving a small amount of control made compliance far more likely.
Troubleshooting
- Pick your battles. Not everything needs to be a fight
- If refusal is constant, the demand might be too high. Try lowering the bar
