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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School Refusal and Anxiety
Your child refuses to go to school or becomes extremely distressed before school
Steps
- Take it seriously. School refusal is NOT truancy; it's anxiety-driven avoidance
- Identify the root cause: is it sensory, social, academic, a specific person, or unpredictability?
- Work WITH the school: request a meeting with the learning support team and class teacher
- Consider a phased return: start with 1 hour, one lesson, or just arriving and leaving
- Maintain structure at home on non-school days so the routine doesn't collapse entirely
What you need
School communication, professional support, phased return plan
Why it works
School refusal is anxiety-driven avoidance, not defiance. The child's nervous system has learned that school is unsafe — whether because of sensory overload, social difficulty, or academic pressure. Identifying and addressing the specific trigger, combined with a graduated return, rebuilds the child's sense of safety.
Age guidance
Can occur at any age, but common trigger points are school entry (age 4-5), around age 7-8, and the transition to secondary/middle school. The approach is the same but the triggers differ by age.
Real-world example
A parent discovered their child's school refusal started after the classroom layout changed. Nobody had connected the two. Once the school moved the child's desk back to a familiar position and reinstated a visual timetable, attendance recovered within two weeks.
Troubleshooting
- Forcing a distressed child into school can make anxiety worse long-term
- You are legally required to ensure education, but education can take many forms
- Alternative education options exist if mainstream school isn't working. Research what's available in your area
