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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Glossary
Daily Challenges
Strategy Categories
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ND Brain Across the Menstrual Cycle
Your ADHD or autistic traits intensify dramatically at certain points in your cycle, and you keep being blindsided by it
Steps
- Track for 2-3 cycles: note focus, sensory tolerance, RSD intensity, sleep, and energy each day with a simple 1-3 scale
- Identify your hardest window (often the week before your period). Mark it in your calendar in advance
- Pre-plan the hard week: fewer social commitments, lighter work load, more sensory comfort, more sleep buffer
- Adjust expectations, not just behaviour: 'this is a low-capacity week' instead of 'why am I failing'
- If perimenopausal shifts are layering on top, name them too. ADHD and autistic traits commonly intensify in perimenopause
What you need
A tracking app or simple notes, a calendar you can plan ahead in
Why it works
Oestrogen affects dopamine availability. As it drops in the luteal phase and through perimenopause, ADHD and autistic traits often intensify. Tracking turns an invisible pattern into a planning tool.
Age guidance
Adults who menstruate or are perimenopausal.
Real-world example
An ADHD adult thought she was failing at her job once a month. Three cycles of tracking showed her worst focus was always days 24-28. She started front-loading hard work earlier in the cycle and stopped booking big presentations in week 4.
Troubleshooting
- If hormonal contraception flattens or worsens symptoms, that's worth raising with your doctor. Bodies vary
- PMDD is more common in ADHD and autistic adults. If symptoms are severe, ask specifically about it
- If you don't menstruate, the same idea applies to any predictable cyclical pattern in your energy
