re: Frick Comfort Animals

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I call this the Teddy Bear Syndrome. Adults who need comfort animals are like children who drag around a stuffed toy or blanky for emotional security. Something is bad wrong with adults who do this.

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This. We live in greatest, richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world. Our poor people live like the rest of the world's upper middle class. We have food, security, health care, legal protections and toys the rest of the planet dreams of. Yet we have grown arse adults that simply can't cope with the horrors of American life and a comfort animal to drag around to feel better.

Go live in Gambia for six months and watch your anxiety disappear when you return to the US.