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
Social Battery Management
For when school runs, playdates, and social obligations drain you completely
Steps
- Track your social energy on a simple scale: full, half, low, empty
- Plan high-social days followed by low-demand recovery days
- Give yourself permission to say no to non-essential social events
- Use scripts for small talk situations that drain you (school gate, parties)
- Identify one or two 'safe' parents you can be honest with about your energy levels
What you need
A calendar for planning, self-compassion, prepared exit strategies
Why it works
Autistic adults process social interaction with conscious effort that neurotypical people don't need. Each social exchange uses energy that doesn't regenerate quickly. Without managing social energy deliberately, autistic parents burn out from the relentless social demands of parenting.
Age guidance
Designed for adults. Particularly important for autistic parents who may not have been diagnosed until adulthood.
Real-world example
A parent who'd been forcing herself to chat at the school gate every day started giving herself permission to wave and walk on. She saved her social energy for the conversations that actually mattered and stopped dreading the afternoon pickup.
Troubleshooting
- Arrive early and leave early. It's easier than staying the whole time
- Texting instead of chatting at the gate is perfectly fine
- Autistic burnout is real. If you're in it, professional support helps
