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
Specific Fears and Phobias
Your child has intense, specific fears (dogs, loud noises, hand dryers, the dark) that limit daily life
Steps
- Never force exposure. This makes phobias worse, not better
- Start with talking about the feared thing using pictures or videos
- Gradually reduce distance: watch from far away, then closer over weeks
- Use a fear ladder: list steps from 'slightly scary' to 'very scary' and work up slowly
- Celebrate each step, no matter how small
What you need
A fear ladder (visual), patience, months not weeks
Why it works
Autistic and sensory-processing children experience phobias more intensely because their nervous system amplifies sensory input. Forced exposure makes this worse by confirming that the feared thing is genuinely threatening. A gradual, self-paced fear ladder respects the nervous system's pace and builds genuine tolerance.
Age guidance
Relevant at any age. Younger children need parent-led gradual exposure. Older children can be involved in designing their own fear ladder.
Real-world example
A child terrified of hand dryers couldn't use any public toilet. Their parent started with showing YouTube videos of hand dryers with the volume low. Over eight weeks, they gradually increased volume, then visited a quiet toilet, then a busier one. By month three, the child could use public toilets with ear defenders. Not fear-free, but functional.
Troubleshooting
- If the phobia is severely limiting daily life, seek professional support (CBT)
- Sensory-based fears (loud noises, textures) may need sensory strategies alongside
- Progress isn't linear. Setbacks are normal and don't mean it's not working
