You know, Casey, obviously, there's been a lot of talk in this country right now about autism and this one front and center again the other day when the president of the United States, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came out with this big announcement about Tylenol and its potential links to autism and young kids.

And I thought, well, let's kind of talk to an expert about this. Somebody who has

spent a lot of their life dealing with autism and people with autism and most importantly

helping people with autism. And that's Dr. Jim Dalton. He's the CEO of Damar Services right here

in Indiana. They help thousands of people and have helped thousands of people impacted by autism. Dr. Jim

Dalton joins us now. Dr. Jim, hello, and thanks for the opportunity to talk today. Yeah, absolutely.

And we always like to say this, Damar Services is a sponsor of our State House Happenings program,

which airs Sunday mornings here on WIBC. So, Jim, you heard the announcement the other day.

And again, when these things

happened, there's all sorts of conflicting information. I don't think anybody's coming from a position

of anything but wanting to help. You as somebody who spent a long time trying to help people

and running a company that's helped people with autism, what was your reaction to the president

and the RFK Jr. announcement? Well, yeah, it's been an interesting week. As you know, we serve a lot of kids and

adults with autism. So I've received lots of phone calls this week from colleagues and, of course,

from parents. And I was actually talking to my board last night and they said, hey, Jim, can you talk to us about this announcement from the White House?

And can you talk about it in a non-political way?

And I, of course, we giggle, and I said, I'm not sure I can do that.

But interestingly, a lot of my colleagues just as, you know, I expect, it just actually kind of rejected the information that came out of the White House just because it came out of the White House.

And others, of course, are concerned, and I have a lot of parents call and say, oh, gosh, did I do something wrong?

And, you know, a lot of guilt and different things like that.

But what I did was I reminded everyone that, you know, what came out of the White House is really not any new information.

I mean, we've known for a long time there's been studies and some general reputable studies that have talked about the associated risks of increased risk for autism based on different things.

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