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
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
