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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Hyperfocus Exit Ramps
You disappear into a task for hours then surface depleted, sore, behind on everything else, and unable to think straight
Steps
- Before starting a hyperfocus-prone task, set a 'soft exit' alarm for the time you'd ideally stop, plus a 'hard exit' alarm 30 minutes later
- Pre-place an exit cue in your environment: a glass of water, a snack, a coat by the door so the next thing is obvious
- When the alarm goes, do one tiny transition action immediately: stand up, stretch, walk to the kettle. Don't 'just finish this bit'
- Run a 60-second reorient: name what you were doing, what you'll do next, and one body signal (thirsty, stiff, hungry)
- Build in a recovery buffer after big focus blocks: low-demand, sensory-soothing time, not straight into another task
What you need
Two alarms, a pre-placed snack/drink, willingness to leave a task mid-thought
Why it works
Hyperfocus floods the brain with dopamine that drowns out interoceptive and time cues. External alarms and pre-placed objects bridge the gap until your prefrontal cortex comes back online.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An ADHD designer kept losing whole weekends to projects, ending in headaches and resentment. Setting a soft alarm at 4pm and a snack pre-placed in the kitchen meant they actually stopped, ate, and still loved the work on Monday.
Troubleshooting
- Hyperfocus isn't the enemy. The goal is exiting cleanly, not stopping the focus itself
- If you ignore the alarm, that's data, not failure. Move it 30 minutes earlier next time
- Pair the exit with something genuinely enjoyable, so your brain wants to leave the task
