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
Glossary
Daily Challenges
Strategy Categories
Community
Autistic Burnout Recovery (Months, Not Days)
You've lost skills you used to have, can't mask anymore, sensory tolerance has collapsed, and 'rest' the normal way isn't working
Steps
- Name it: autistic burnout is not depression and not laziness. It's a regression after sustained overload. Recovery is measured in months
- Drop the load: cut every non-essential demand for a defined recovery window (start with 4-6 weeks). Cancel, delegate, postpone
- Lean fully into your natural autistic rhythms: special interests, stims, scripts, sameness, sensory comforts. These are the medicine, not the problem
- Unmask in your safe spaces first. Notice what you do when nobody is watching, then let yourself do it on purpose
- Rebuild slowly in tiny increments. One social event a fortnight, then a week. Push too soon and burnout deepens
What you need
Permission to reduce demands, ideally a supportive household, time
Why it works
Autistic burnout is caused by chronic mismatch between demands and capacity, often years of masking. Recovery requires lowering the demand floor for long enough that the nervous system can rebuild, not pep talks.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
A late-diagnosed autistic adult crashed after 20 years of high-masking. They took 3 months at reduced hours, dropped most social commitments, and spent hours daily on their special interest. After 6 months they returned to work, this time openly autistic.
Troubleshooting
- If you can't drop work entirely, look at reduced hours, remote work, or accommodations (see workplace self-advocacy)
- Recovery is not linear. A bad week doesn't mean you've reset to zero
- If suicidal thoughts are present, this is beyond a self-help strategy. Reach out for professional support today
