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
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Handwriting Support
Your child finds writing physically difficult and tiring due to motor coordination
Steps
- Use a chunky pencil grip or ergonomic pen
- Try a sloped writing board to improve wrist angle
- Keep writing tasks SHORT: quality over quantity
- Offer alternatives: typing, voice recording, or dictation
- Stretch hands and fingers before and after writing tasks
What you need
Pencil grip, sloped board (or a lever arch file works!), timer
Why it works
Dyspraxia makes the physical act of writing exhausting because the brain has to work much harder to coordinate fine motor movements. Ergonomic tools reduce the physical strain, shorter writing sessions prevent fatigue-induced frustration, and alternatives like typing bypass the motor difficulty entirely.
Age guidance
Relevant from age 5 onwards when formal writing begins. The earlier you introduce supports, the less negative association builds up around writing.
Real-world example
A parent bought a sloped writing board (actually just a lever arch file) and a chunky pencil grip for under £5 total. Their child went from refusing to write to completing short tasks without tears. The wrist angle change made that much difference.
Troubleshooting
- If handwriting is causing real distress, ask school about typing as an alternative
- Playdough and theraputty strengthen fine motor skills through play
- Don't force neatness. Legibility is the goal
