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
Adulting Admin Without Dread
For when appointments, forms, taxes, renewals, and 'official' tasks pile up until something becomes urgent or late
Steps
- Keep one 'admin list' (one place, not five). Capture every life admin item as soon as it lands, even half-formed
- Schedule a weekly 'Admin Hour' on the same day and time, ideally with body-doubling (a friend, café, or co-working call)
- Front-load the smallest action: 'find the email', 'open the form', 'find the phone number'. Starting is the whole battle
- Batch by type within the hour: all phone calls together, all forms together. Switching context is the most expensive cost
- If a task triggers freeze, write it down with the one next physical step and move on. Capture beats completion
What you need
One admin list (notes app, paper, Notion), a recurring weekly hour, a body double if possible
Why it works
Life admin combines task initiation, working memory, time blindness, and decision fatigue, the exact stack ADHD and autistic brains struggle with. A predictable time, place, and method removes most of the friction.
Real-world example
An ADHD adult had unopened post for months and missed two MOT-style renewals. A Sunday 5-6pm Admin Hour with a friend on video call cleared a year of backlog in 6 weeks.
Troubleshooting
- If 60 minutes feels too long, start with 20. Consistency beats duration
- Pair Admin Hour with something genuinely nice: favourite coffee, candle, playlist. Reward the act of starting
- If a task has been on your list for a month, ask: does this actually matter, or can it die quietly?
