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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Daily Challenges
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Building Your Sensory Diet
You know certain inputs help or hurt but it's all reactive, and you keep getting overwhelmed before you intervene
Steps
- Map your 8 senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, vestibular/balance, proprioception/body, interoception). Note 'soothing' and 'overwhelming' inputs for each
- Identify your top 3 daily regulators (e.g. headphones, weighted lap pad, chewy snack) and put them in reach in every space you use
- Identify your top 3 overload triggers and add a barrier or backup (sunglasses, earplugs, exit plan)
- Schedule sensory inputs proactively, not just reactively: 10 minutes of proprioceptive input before a hard meeting, not after
- Review monthly. Sensory needs shift with stress, hormones, season, and burnout. Update the diet, don't outgrow it
What you need
A simple sensory map (paper or notes), basic sensory tools that work for your profile
Why it works
Sensory regulation is not optional for ND adults, it's nervous system maintenance. A mapped diet shifts you from reacting to overwhelm to preventing it, which compounds across every other area of life.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An autistic adult mapped their sensory profile and realised office strip-lights were their biggest drain. Tinted glasses and a desk lamp instead of overheads turned brutal afternoons into manageable ones.
Troubleshooting
- If you can't tell what's soothing vs. overwhelming, note your body's response after the input: calmer, more frantic, or unchanged
- Your needs may be opposite of what's typical. Bright lights might focus you, soft music might irritate you. Trust your data
- If certain inputs you used to love now overload you, that's often a burnout signal, not a personality change