and we're back with dr steven sure a professor at idle fire university autism researcher diagnosed with a asty himself welcome back to the show now let me ask you is it important for people with oxygen to be integrated into society or it just feels more comfortable to be in your own world well i think it's important for those of us with autism to be integrated into society society is pretty much integrated with. we're all integrated with ourselves with each other i should say. as for being in our own world. the way i look at it is the people with autism. are in the world and in some cases are in the world too much and what i mean by that is due to sensory sensitivities we may perceive light vision. touch and other things more strongly than other people and if these sensations are too strong they can cause the person with autism to be overwhelmed and then appear to withdraw. so sensory sensitivity that you mentioned is that a common thing for all who have autism what forms does it take well at this point everybody who i've met on the autism spectrum has sensory issues i do have a friend

and we're back with dr steven sure a professor i don't fire university autism researcher diagnosed with a stage himself welcome back to the show now let me ask you is it important for people with them to be integrated into society or it just feels more comfortable to be in your own world well i think it's important for those of us with autism to be integrated into society society is pretty much integrated with. we're all integrated with ourselves with each other i should say. as for being in our own world. the way i look at it is the people with autism. are in the world and in some cases are in the world too much and what i mean by that is due to sensory sensitivities we may perceive light vision. touch and other things more strongly than other people and if the sensations are too strong they can cause the person with autism to be overwhelmed and then appear to withdraw. so sensory sensitivity that you mentioned is that a common thing for all who have autism what forms does it take well at this point everybody who i've met on the autism spectrum has sensory issues i do have a friend on

and we're back with dr steven sure professor and i don't fly university autism researcher diagnosed with a himself welcome back to the show now let me ask you is it important for people with oxygen to be integrated into society or it just feels more comfortable to be in your own world well i think it's important for those of us with autism to be integrated into society society is pretty much integrated with. we're all integrated with ourselves with each other i should say. as for being in our own world. the way i look at it is the people with autism. are in the world and in some cases are in the world too much and what i mean by that is due to sensory sensitivities we may perceive light vision. touch and other things more strongly than other people and if these sensations are too strong they can cause the person with autism to be overwhelmed and then appear to withdraw. so sensory sensitivity that you mentioned is that a common thing for all who have autism what forms does it take well at this point everybody who i've met on the autism spectrum has sensory issues i do have a friend on th

dr. steven hopkins joins us this morning to explain. good morning. >> good morning, barbara. >> we've been talking about sunscreen forever but you say it's even more important than ever to make sure your children are covered. why? >> there are new studies that show now even in children melanoma, which is a potentially fatal skin cancer, is on the rise in children. 2% per year. so it's a big problem. and again, as we talked, it's just not fair-skinned children, it's children of all skin types need protection. they need sun protection. >> so you say the boys and girls tend to get burned in different spots than adults. is that right? or boys versus girls? >> yes. and as the melanomas seem to be different areas. in boys the melanomas tend to know in the face and on the trunks. on girls for some reason on the hips and lower legs. this is what the statistics are showing. but againall areas need to be covered. >> so tell us then how should we approach protecting our children while we're at the beach? >> well, you have to realize hi dangerous. it is a carcinogen, this has been proven. this is why no sun tanning booths for children. it's being banned in actually ten states now. slather yo