Can a lorakeet be autistic

[Pet cheya]

She sleeps with her head against something solid, she never makes a sound, she is super friendly to me, only, as long as my hands don't get to near, she sits on my shoulder,head and my pillow or body if I sleep

 

[JjEjFjF]

What makes you think she’s autistic? Because she sleeps with her head against something or because she’s afraid of hands?

 

[Pet cheya]

Her quietness and yes her sleeping status. Birds normally put their head under their wing. She moved her vocal box and opens her beak but never a sound

 

[Pet cheya]

She also tilts her head a stares in 1 spot up high. Nothing there, just gazing in thin air

 

[Pet cheya]

She also tilts her head a stares in 1 spot up high. Nothing there, just gazing in thin air

She often tilts her head and gazed into thin air

 

[JjEjFjF]

Her quietness and yes her sleeping status. Birds normally put their head under their wing. She moved her vocal box and opens her beak but never a sound

Birds dont always put their head under the wing to sleep. The only time my birds do that is in the day time when its light.

 

[JjEjFjF]

She often tilts her head and gazed into thin air

One of my birds do that. Im not sure why.

 

[JjEjFjF]

Apparently its pretty common.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cockatiel/comments/1854ryr/why_does_he_keep_looking_up_the_ceiling_like_its

 

[DonnaBudgie]

She sleeps with her head against something solid, she never makes a sound, she is super friendly to me, only, as long as my hands don't get to near, she sits on my shoulder,head and my pillow or body if I sleep

She sounds like a great, normal companion bird to me! However, I caution you NOT to sleep with your bird. These forums have heartbreaking stories of beloved birds crushed to death by their owners doing exactly that.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Birds dont always put their head under the wing to sleep. The only time my birds do that is in the day time when its light.

My budgies sometimes sleep lying down on their breasts on a smooth plastic surface. Or sitting up on a flat surface with their head bent forward almost touching the surface.

My budgies have plenty of other budgies to socialize with (plus us) and chose to talk to walls, shadows, perches, wooden posts, cage bars, bits of hardware, etc, (considered autistic behavior if done by human children) and they are normal.

 

[20brio19]

Lol autistic birds. I admit I have googled this thought before and came upon some interesting discussions.

Obviously Birds can't have a human trait like autism(if it's human-specific at all) but parrots display almost all of the symptoms. Need to have strict routines, changes cause them stress, oversensitive to sensory information like noise, textures, crowds or temperature, attaching to specific people etc. the list goes on.

I mean it's just a coincidence but it does make it noticeable once you've thought about it before.