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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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
