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
Understanding and Supporting Stimming
Your child stims (flaps, rocks, hums, spins) and you're unsure whether to intervene
Steps
- Understand that stimming is self-regulation, not 'bad behaviour'
- Only redirect a stim if it's genuinely harmful (head banging, skin picking that causes injury)
- For harmful stims, offer a safer alternative that meets the same sensory need
- Never suppress stimming in public because it embarrasses you. Your child needs it
- Educate siblings and family: 'This is how their brain calms down'
What you need
Understanding, alternative sensory options for harmful stims
Why it works
Stimming is the nervous system's way of self-regulating — it provides sensory input the brain needs to stay balanced. Suppressing stims removes a vital coping mechanism, which increases anxiety and can lead to more harmful behaviours. Supporting safe stimming is supporting regulation.
Age guidance
Relevant from toddlerhood through adulthood. Stimming is lifelong and should be accommodated, not extinguished.
Real-world example
A parent used to stop their child from flapping in public because of the looks they got. When they stopped intervening, the child became calmer and more regulated in those same settings. The flapping was doing a job — and it was working.
Troubleshooting
- If stimming increases dramatically, it usually means stress has increased. Address the source
- Schools should accommodate stimming. If they're suppressing it, advocate for your child
- Fidget tools, chewelry, and weighted items are socially acceptable stim alternatives
