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
Friendship Without Burnout
You love your friends but message-back debt piles up, you ghost without meaning to, and then guilt makes it even harder to reply
Steps
- Sort your people into 3 buckets: close (4-6 people), regular (10-15), and loose ties. Different rules for each
- For close friends, agree explicitly: 'I'm a slow replier, it's never personal. Voice notes / memes / random check-ins are welcome'
- Pick one low-effort check-in ritual: a meme send, a 'thinking of you' voice note, a Sunday catch-up. Not all friends, just one or two
- Treat unread messages as a task, not a moral failing. Schedule a 15-minute 'reply window' twice a week
- When you ghost by accident, restart with honesty: 'Sorry I dropped off, ADHD/autistic brain. Tell me how you are'. Most people get it
What you need
Honesty with the people who matter, a low-pressure check-in habit
Why it works
Out of sight, out of mind is a real ADHD pattern, and social scripts are taxing for autistic adults. Naming this with your people and lowering the bar for contact protects the relationship from your executive function.
Age guidance
Adults and older teens.
Real-world example
An ADHD adult kept losing friends to inbox guilt. They sent one honest message to four close friends explaining the pattern. Three responded with 'oh god, same'. The friendships immediately felt lighter.
Troubleshooting
- Quality over volume. Two real friendships beat a constantly-curated friend group
- If voice notes feel less effortful than typing, lean in. Use the medium your brain likes
- Friendships that require constant masking will burn you out. It's allowed to let some drift
