Barry Baines

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.

I'm grateful.

Yeah.

And the conversation here, it's really been amazing to me.

And I continue to learn so much about the different topics that we have.

The point I want to make is that what's really too bad, and I'm hoping that opportunities are disguised as problems,

but basically the inaccuracies that, um, unfortunately, uh, formerly highly trusted, uh, government agencies, uh, have come out with things that are, you know, the, the medical term is like nonsense.

Um, and, and just, you know, cherry picking and picking little things that don't make any sense scientifically.

Um,

But what I'm hoping is that, you know, sometimes if you shine a spotlight on something, it might offer an opportunity for better community education.

Right.

And to be able to sort of, you know, move on from that.

But, you know, again, I know opportunities are disguised as problems.

It would be better to not have to have to deal with those problems on top of everything else that, you know, that we need to deal with.

And so I'll just end by saying, you know,