Barry Baines

Barry, go ahead.

Yeah.

So I want to make an analogy.

between asthma and autism, not because they both begin with the letter A. But in asthma management, there's a very well-developed plan of action to help individuals manage their asthma.

Now, this tends to be mostly medication-oriented, depending on asthma symptoms.

But what I'm wondering about is within the neurodevelopmental field, do they have sort of plans?

I'm just going to call them an autism support plan that obviously you need the input of family and the person themselves that know what things are.

you know, to do or not to do, things that help them and things that don't help them, for bringing that in the same way that, you know, people in school, you know, they develop this IEP or individual education plan, you know, that kind of thing.

I'm just wondering if there's something like that that already exists or is

In the works, because having something like that can be both educational for the people around someone with autism and families with autism, but also help people to perform as, you know, as best they as best they can and to sort of avoid things that exacerbate.

You know, things.

So I was just kind of thinking about that.

And, you know, is there something analogous within the autism support services that can kind of educate us?

Barry, last thoughts.

Well, number one, I'm just so glad that I listened to the NPR show that when you and Zephyr were on an interview a couple of months ago, and just to get connected, because my head was exploding.

Because I was trying to find someone to come on the show as a guest expert on autism.

And after I heard that, I said, yeah.

You're the one.

You're the one.

And that was great.