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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After a Shutdown: Quiet Recovery
For when after a shutdown you feel hollow, slow, and unable to function, and pushing yourself back to normal makes it last longer
Steps
- Recognise it: shutdown looks like flat affect, slow words, withdrawal, sometimes loss of speech. It is not depression and not stubbornness
- Drop all demands for the next 2-24 hours, depending on severity. Cancel what can be cancelled, postpone what can be postponed
- Move into a low-stimulation cave: dim or no lights, quiet, soft textures, a weighted blanket or familiar comfort object
- Use one steady regulating input: a familiar show on low volume, a known playlist, a comfort food you can eat without thinking
- Re-enter the world in stages: first interoception (water, food, loo), then movement (a slow walk), then communication, then tasks
What you need
A space you can darken, headphones or earplugs, a soft blanket, easy food
Why it works
Shutdown is the nervous system pulling power from non-essential systems after overload. Reducing input lets the system reboot. Adding more input (advice, noise, demands) keeps the protective shutdown active longer.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An autistic adult used to push through shutdowns at work, which extended them for days. Once they started taking a quiet 2-hour cave session as soon as they noticed the signs, recoveries dropped from days to hours.
Troubleshooting
- Shutdown is not the same as meltdown. The recovery is rest, not release. Forcing 'talking it out' tends to backfire
- If you live with others, agree a simple signal in advance (a card on the door, a phrase) so you don't have to explain mid-shutdown
- Repeated shutdowns are a sign your overall load is too high, not that you need to be tougher
