Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

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The authorities at the CDC are trying to explain what's behind new numbers showing that one out of every 31 children in America was diagnosed with some measure of autism in 2022.

The latest figures available.

And the report shows that autism was much more common in boys than girls.

Other health officials are explaining that the larger numbers are because parents and doctors are now much more aware of the disease and are now correctly identifying more symptoms.

Yeah, I might be biased in this just because I've known a couple of people that were in that

world of researching that who really react, like, angrily to that notion, that that is

just a distraction.

Autism is so overwhelmingly a bigger deal now than it used to be.

Maybe around the edges it's because of diagnosis, but it's not a factor in the whole thing at all.

And it just, you know, it just clouds.

It just takes away the momentum you've got in the conversation.

And you definitely thought that was righteous fervor as opposed to they didn't want their funding cut.

No, no, no, no, no.

Absolutely.

That's what they believe.

Yeah.

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