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
Time Blindness Toolkit
You consistently misjudge how long things take and run late
Steps
- Use analogue clocks where possible. They make time visible
- Set alarms for transitions: 'leave in 15 min', 'leave in 5 min', 'leave NOW'
- Time yourself doing routine tasks and write down the ACTUAL time they take
- Build buffer time into everything: if you think it'll take 10 min, schedule 20
- Use a 'getting ready' alarm that accounts for your real prep time, not your optimistic guess
What you need
Analogue clock, phone alarms, a notebook for time-tracking
Why it works
Time blindness is a core ADHD trait — the brain genuinely cannot perceive time passing accurately. External time-making tools compensate for the internal clock that doesn't work reliably. Tracking actual task durations builds a realistic picture that overrides the brain's optimistic guessing.
Age guidance
Designed for adults. Many parents discover time blindness while supporting their ADHD child and realise they have it too.
Real-world example
One parent timed themselves getting ready in the morning for a week and discovered it took 45 minutes, not the 15 they'd always assumed. Setting their alarm 30 minutes earlier eliminated years of chronic lateness almost overnight.
Troubleshooting
- Time blindness isn't laziness. Your brain genuinely can't feel time passing
- Visual timers (like Time Timer) work for adults too, not just kids
- Ask a trusted person to text you a 'time to leave' reminder if alarms aren't enough
