Well Hallelujah!!!

A press release from the National Autism Association just showed up in my e-mail Inbox.
The title "The Age of Autism: 'Problems' in CDC Data" (follow the link and you'll get to read Jay Olmstead's entire piece).

The kicker is really at the end, where the chairwoman of a government appointed panel of experts is quoted as saying:

"We know there's a major genetic component to autism, but genes cannot explain a rise over a short time period of a few decades," she said.
"We also know that environment plays a significant part, and the scientific community is just beginning to search for what those factors and exposures are."

OK, so part of me wants to just grab these people, shake them and scream in their faces "DUH.. you are just NOW starting to get that environment plays a significant part????" (while every day more and more kiddos are getting diagnosed and are not getting the real help they need for this very real PHYSIOLOGICAL (NOT psychiatric!!) disorder).

I decided however to stay in the holiday spirit and shout from the roof tops:

WELL, HALLELUJAH!! THEY'RE STARTING TO SEE THE LIGHT

Now, let's hope that they remember that they need to follow the darn light to get to their destination....