The Support App for Parents of Children with ADHD or Autism
Thriive helps children grow up feeling understood, not broken.
Everyday support for families navigating ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent profiles. Track the patterns, find strategies that actually fit, and feel one step ahead on the hard days.
What changes for parents of neurodivergent children
Without Thriive
- Growing up believing they're broken
- Falling behind and never understanding why
- Slipping through the cracks of a system not built for them
- Families feeling helpless watching it happen
With Thriive
- A child who understands how their brain works
- Parents who can advocate with confidence
- Strategies that actually fit, not generic advice
- A family that feels like a team
How Thriive supports parents of children with ADHD and autism
- Pattern Tracker: Log a tough moment in 30 seconds. Thriive surfaces the patterns behind ADHD and autism behaviours, so you can spot the triggers and respond earlier.
- Strategy Library: Real strategies for ADHD and autism, matched to your child's profile. Not generic advice.
- Visual Routine Builder: Step-by-step routines for the moments that usually go sideways. Mornings, bedtime, homework.
- Daily Check-ins: A 30-second mood check that builds a picture of how your child is really doing over time.
- Shareable Reports: Take real evidence to your GP, school, or therapist when it matters.
- The Hive: A community of parents who actually get it.
How Thriive helps parents, and how it helps their children
For parents
Understand your child like never before. Advocate with confidence. Stop feeling like you're figuring it out alone.
For children
Feel seen. Understand how your own brain works. Build a profile that's yours.
Neurodivergent conditions Thriive supports
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Default Mode: Pre-Decide the Small Stuff
For when by midday your brain is fried from a hundred tiny choices: what to wear, what to eat, what order to do things, and the actual work hasn't started
Steps
- List the recurring decisions that drain you: meals, outfits, routes, morning order, evening wind-down
- Pick one to defaultify this week. Build a tiny menu: 3 breakfasts you rotate, 2 work outfits, 1 default route
- Write your defaults somewhere visible (fridge, mirror, notes app home screen) so 'past you' chose for 'today you'
- Give yourself a 'wildcard' slot per category so it doesn't feel like a cage: one breakfast, one outfit can break the menu
- Review monthly. If a default stops working, swap it. Defaults are tools, not rules
What you need
Pen and paper or a notes app, 20 minutes one evening to set the first menu
Why it works
Decision-making uses the same finite executive function pool as task initiation and emotional regulation. Pre-deciding low-value choices preserves the pool for what actually matters.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An autistic developer was exhausted before standup every day. They built a 3-shirt rotation and a default breakfast (oats, banana, coffee). Within a fortnight, mornings stopped feeling like an obstacle course.
Troubleshooting
- If novelty-seeking ADHD brain rebels, frame defaults as 'energy savings' for the things you actually want to spend brain on
- Don't defaultify everything at once. One category per week is plenty
- If you can't pick the first default, ask: 'What did past-me do that worked?' Copy that
