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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Managing Property Destruction
Your child throws, breaks, rips, or destroys items when frustrated or overwhelmed
Steps
- In the moment: remove breakable or valuable items from reach if possible
- Offer a safe alternative: 'You can rip THIS paper, but not your schoolwork'
- After calm: involve them in 'repair together'. Fixing what was broken builds responsibility
- Identify the trigger pattern: is it always after school? During homework? When told no?
- Create sensory alternatives for the same release: tearing newspaper, smashing playdough
What you need
Sacrificial sensory items (old paper, playdough), repair supplies
Why it works
Destruction is almost always about releasing overwhelming emotion that has no other outlet. ADHD and autistic children experience frustration more intensely and have fewer ways to discharge it safely. Providing sanctioned outlets for that energy means the need gets met without the damage.
Age guidance
Common between ages 4-10, though it can persist into the teens. The replacement outlets may need to evolve as the child grows.
Real-world example
A parent kept a stack of old newspapers by the sofa. When their child felt the urge to rip or throw, they could shred the newspapers instead. It met the same sensory need and nobody's homework got destroyed. Simple, but effective.
Troubleshooting
- Destruction is usually about releasing overwhelming emotion, not being 'naughty'
- Keep sentimental or expensive items out of reach during high-risk times
- If they destroy their own work, it's often perfectionism. Address the anxiety behind it