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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Solo Parenting a Neurodivergent Child
You're parenting alone and the weight of appointments, advocacy, school communication, and daily support falls entirely on you
Steps
- Accept that you cannot do everything. Triage ruthlessly: what's urgent, what's important, what can wait, what can be dropped entirely
- Build a 'team of two' even if there's no partner: one friend, one family member, one professional, or one online group who gets it. You need at least one person you can call
- Batch appointments and school communications. Set one day a week as your 'admin day' for calls, emails, and form-filling
- Create a single document with your child's key information: diagnosis, medications, professionals involved, school contacts. Keep it on your phone so it's always accessible
- Ask for help with specific tasks, not general support. 'Can you pick up the kids on Thursday?' works better than 'I need help'
- Protect your own energy ruthlessly. You are the only adult holding this together. If you burn out, everything stops
What you need
A key information document, at least one support person, ruthless prioritisation, self-compassion
Why it works
Solo parenting a neurodivergent child means carrying the mental load, emotional labour, advocacy, and daily care without a co-parent to share it with. The strategies that help aren't about trying harder. They're about building systems that reduce the cognitive load and creating a support network that makes the weight shareable.
Age guidance
Designed for adults. These strategies apply regardless of your child's age, but the specific pressures shift as children grow.
Real-world example
A single mum created a one-page document with her son's diagnosis, medications, school contacts, and therapy schedule and kept it on her phone. When she had to call an after-hours GP, she could read everything off the screen instead of trying to remember it all under pressure. That document saved her countless times.
Troubleshooting
- The financial pressure of solo parenting an ND child is real. Look into disability benefits, carer's allowances, and charity grants. Many parents don't know these exist
- If you're the only point of contact for school, ask the school to communicate via email so you have a written record and don't miss things during the working day
- Online communities of solo parents raising ND children are invaluable. You don't have to explain yourself. They already understand
- Perfectionism will destroy you. 'Good enough' parenting is excellent parenting when you're doing it alone