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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Low-Spoons Feeding Yourself
You forget to eat, end up surviving on snacks, or stand in the kitchen overwhelmed and walk out hungry
Steps
- Define your 'safe foods': 3-5 things you'll reliably eat even on a bad day. No judgement, even if it's the same thing twice
- Stock the kitchen for your worst day, not your best. Keep low-effort versions in stock: ready meals, frozen veg, tinned beans, bread
- Build 2 'no-think' meals you can assemble in under 5 minutes from pantry staples. Write them on the fridge
- Eat the food in front of you, not the food you 'should' want. A safe meal eaten beats a 'proper' meal abandoned
- Pair eating with a cue you already do: kettle on, episode start, work break. Hunger isn't always a reliable starter
What you need
A small shortlist of safe foods, freezer/pantry space, no shame
Why it works
Cooking is a complex executive function task: planning, sequencing, sensory regulation, time awareness. Reducing the steps and pre-deciding the meal removes most of the load, so eating actually happens.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An ADHD adult kept living on biscuits between meetings. They stocked the freezer with 6 microwave meals and put a banana on the desk every morning. Within two weeks, the afternoon energy crash disappeared.
Troubleshooting
- Repetition is fine. 'Same lunch every day' is a feature, not a problem
- If sensory texture is the block, lean into smooth or crunchy depending on what your body likes today
- If you're not hungry but light-headed, eat first, feelings later. Hunger cues are often broken in ND adults
