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started. Welcome Amanda Deekman back to the Autism-A-D-H-D podcast.

Thank you. I'm thrilled to be back with you.

I'm so excited that you're back with me.

Today, we are going to be talking about this window of opportunity or window of tolerance.

But before we jump in there, I'm going to introduce you

real quick. Amanda Deekman is a parent coach and an author in the neurodiversity space. And she is

also autistic. Amanda became a leading voice in the movement for low demand parenting practices

with her book, Low Demand Parenting,

that was just published, and I have it right here in my hands. It's absolutely amazing.

We'll talk more about that later. So Amanda runs a successful coaching practice for parents

of nerd virgin children, including online courses and a vibrant

membership community. She lives with her husband, Brian, and three nerd divergent children in an

intentional community in Durham, North Carolina, which is close to me, which I love. So we're that

close. So what would you consider as far as describing this window of tolerance?

Yeah.

I think that people have been recognizing that there is a window inside of us where we are able to manage the stress that's coming in

and continue to keep our thinking brain, our rational selves, our memory, our tools,

all of it operating at the same time. People have been recognizing that that is true for hundreds of years,

probably. But the amazing thing that we as modern parents have the gift of is that we now have

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