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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Following Multi-Step Directions
Your child only does the first step of a multi-step instruction and forgets the rest
Steps
- Give ONE instruction at a time. Wait for completion before the next
- For multi-step tasks, use a visual checklist they can tick off
- Chunk instructions: instead of 'Get ready for bed', say 'Put on pyjamas' then wait
- Ask them to repeat the instruction back to you before they start
- Use gestures alongside words to reinforce the message
What you need
Visual checklists, patience, simplified language
Why it works
Children with ADHD and Autism have limited working memory capacity for verbal instructions. Giving three instructions at once is like asking them to juggle — they'll catch the first one and drop the rest. Single instructions with visual backup reduce the cognitive load to a manageable level.
Age guidance
Critical from age 3 onwards. Even older children and teenagers benefit from chunked instructions. This isn't immaturity — it's a genuine processing difference.
Real-world example
A parent switched from 'go upstairs, brush your teeth, and put your pyjamas on' to just 'go upstairs.' When the child got there, they called up 'now brush your teeth.' Task completion went from 30% to nearly 100% overnight.
Troubleshooting
- If they're not following instructions, check they heard you. Get their attention first
- Reduce background noise when giving instructions
- It's not defiance, it's processing. Give them time
