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And what do we do to them?
Breed them to the point of heart failure and disability, farm them in cramped conditions and kill them in extremely cruel ways.
About billion of them yearly. A few hundred maybe get touched gently by a human, rest are treated like trash.
This also indicates that birds & mammals both have the same hug-oriented-nervous-system!
Some years ago, there was a case of a woman, probably in Scandinavia somewhere, who either had the hugging-nervous-system but not the normal-touch nervous-system, or vice versa..
Anyways, it was her who caused the medical-science/neuroscience field to understand what that strange nervous-system we've got in us, which doesn't even notice anything unless it is being activated steadily for about 2 seconds .. what it is for.
Just as we've got a pain-sensory-system, we've got a gut-mind-system ( the original brain, aka the worm-brain: the other 3 being brainstem/crocodilian, the limbic-system/herdbeast, & the cortex/human brains: 4 of them, but the only one which can operate on its own, without the entire rest of the body, is the nervous-system of the gut ), we've got a visual-system, a hearing-system, etc..
but we've got a hugging-system, too!
I believe that's part of the cause for the autism-epidemic: it used to be normal for babies to be slung on parent's body, but now we put babies in buggies/strollers, so they're missing that hugging-activation .. & "use it or lose it" is Nature's Law, re nervous-system:
Why is it that lead-filled jackets are pacifying for autistics? Because it's activating the hugging-nervous-system.
( why not use spandex, instead of lead-filled jackets?? Lead's poison )
So, when you starve the hugging-system of all the children in a population, .. does that create an increase in autism??
I believe it does. ( that it was thiomersol which was doing it was falsified by the eradication of thiomersol in California, & the autism-rate kept climbing, falsifying that idea )
Why was it that Temple Grandin found a hugging-machine to be able to activate her brain's Happy! mode ( before the authorities destroyed it, finding her fixing a problem to be unacceptable )?
Same nervous-system.
That birds also have the same ( function, anyways, even if it evolved from different ancestral-system ) roots, is interesting.
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Eh, I was hugged plenty as a kid, still autistic. The increase is that we're better at recognizing and diagnosing it. And we're better at describing it so that people can recognize it in themselves, rather than they having to assume that everyone struggles in the ways that autistic people do.
But I am glad my bird appreciates when I hug her.