[ WP ] The vaccine for autism has just been announced . Your anti-vax family does not know how to handle the news .

My parents, Joey, and I sat in the living room, not really paying much attention to the TV. Until the news was announced. `` A cure for autism,'' the newsman had said. At that moment we all looked up, even Joey, who had no idea what was going on. 
 
 As my heart lit up with hope, I saw my dad clench his jaw and my mom purse her lips. They did n't believe in vaccines, but I did. I believed in saving people, no matter what the cost was. 
 
 I took Joey's hand in mine, the poor boy. He looked at me and smiled. How could you not want to save someone like this? I returned the smile, then looked to my parents. They new what I had in mind. `` No,'' my dad said firmly, `` you know how we feel about that.'' 
 
 `` It could *save* him!'' I exclaimed, overwhelmed with hope and frustration. `` Why would you not want that?'' 
 
 `` Why would you question us? We know what's best, and that vaccine is not it,'' my mom said. `` What's *best*,'' I frowned, `` what do you think is *best*, letting him stay the way he is?'' 
 
 `` God made him that way for a reason, and we're not about to change that,'' my mom said knowingly. 
 
 `` What if God meant for us to cure him? I mean, he did just let us hear that announcement,'' I argued. 
 
 `` Joey is perfect the way he is, and he does n't need to change!'' my dad insisted, but I did n't believe it. He reached for Joey, but I pulled him away, taking him up in my arms. He wrapped around me like a koala. 
 
 I walked into the kitchen with him before my parents could say another word, and set him down on the counter. `` Do n't worry, Joey,'' I whispered to him. `` I'll get you that vaccine.''
