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
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Low-Demand Mode for PDA Days
For when even tiny tasks feel like a wall when your nervous system is in demand-avoidance mode, and pushing through makes it worse
Steps
- Notice the signal: rising dread, frozen scrolling, bargaining with yourself. That is your nervous system asking for autonomy, not laziness
- Officially declare a low-demand day or hour: 'Today I am in low-demand mode.' Naming it removes the guilt loop
- Strip the day down to one chosen anchor (eat something, drink water) and let everything else become optional
- Reframe musts as invitations: 'I could reply to that message' instead of 'I have to'. Offer yourself genuine choice, including no
- Stack tiny wins through sideways motion: pottering, parallel tasks, doing something fun next to the avoided task without committing to it
What you need
Permission from yourself, a quiet pocket of time, ideally a low-stimulation space
Why it works
For PDA brains, the perception of demand triggers a threat response. Removing the demand (not the task) lowers the nervous system load enough that capacity can return. Forcing through tends to deepen the freeze.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
One PDA adult spent a whole Saturday unable to start a 10-minute form. They declared a low-demand day, watched comfort TV, and pottered. By Sunday evening the form took 8 minutes. The 'wasted' day was actually the regulation their system needed.
Troubleshooting
- If 'low-demand' itself becomes a demand, soften it: 'I am allowed to do nothing right now'
- Hard deadlines still exist. Pick the one thing that genuinely cannot wait and let the rest go without negotiation
- If shame creeps in, remember: PDA is a nervous system response, not a character flaw
