Hugging has two distinct sides - emotional and sensorial. It feels kind of futile to do it for emotional reason (you do it just to please the other side, maybe) but it still feels good for sensorial one. It's like hugging a pleasant animal.
You never hugged someone you missed to death ? I bet it wasn't for sensorial pleasure. There's something more when you can let down on someone else and somehow 'talk' by skin / closeness.
I choose not to "miss to death" anyone/anything. When it happens to hug someone it doesn't make much difference to me if we haven't seen each other for over a year or a minute.
Well, I used to feel that way, but again since these events I experienced the physical affectionate need for someone. Again, the reason I ask if autistic persons are stuck without this sensation or not.
I recently read part of an Oliver Sacks book, it's incredible how different everyone's experience can differ.
