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
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Daily Challenges
Strategy Categories
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Working With Hyperfocus
Your child becomes so absorbed in one activity they can't transition away from it
Steps
- Recognise that hyperfocus is a feature, not a flaw. It shows incredible concentration ability
- Use countdown warnings (10, 5, 2 minutes) before transitions out of hyperfocus
- Offer a 'save point': 'Let's save your place so you can come back to it'
- Channel hyperfocus into productive activities when possible
- Avoid abrupt interruptions. They can trigger meltdowns from the 'snap out' effect
What you need
Timer for warnings, a way to 'save' their progress (bookmark, screenshot)
Why it works
Hyperfocus is often misunderstood as just concentrating really hard. In reality, the ADHD and autistic brain locks onto stimulating activities because the dopamine reward is so intense. Abrupt interruption feels neurologically like having something ripped away. Countdown warnings and save points ease the brain out of the flow state gradually.
Age guidance
Relevant from age 4 onwards. Hyperfocus becomes more pronounced as children encounter screens and highly stimulating activities.
Real-world example
A parent used to physically take the iPad away, which triggered a meltdown every time. When they switched to 10-5-2 minute warnings and saying 'let's save your game,' the meltdowns stopped. The child just needed time to mentally transition.
Troubleshooting
- Hyperfocus on screens is harder to break than on physical activities
- Using their interest as a reward ('finish homework, then 20 minutes of Lego') works well
- If hyperfocus is only on screens, it may be worth reviewing screen time boundaries
