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Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child is a parenting guide by Amanda Diekman, an autistic adult and parent coach. Positioned within the neurodiversity-affirming parenting genre, the book argues for reducing expectations that can intensify stress, conflict, and shutdown in neurodivergent children. Its purpose is not to offer a strict behavior-management system, but to help families identify which demands are unnecessary, which are overwhelming, and which can be adjusted to support regulation and trust. The book emphasizes radical acceptance, practical flexibility, and a calmer relational environment as the foundation for better daily functioning. It is especially relevant for parents of autistic children and children who fit a PDA profile, but its core insights extend to any family seeking a less adversarial approach to care. Rather than centering discipline, the book focuses on connection, adaptation, and the lived reality of a child whose needs may differ from neurotypical expectations.