Jim Baker

There's echoes of this upbringing in the modern Jim Baker. When you deprive infants of touch they stop growing and they can even die if they don't receive sufficient physical stimulation. Even when their nutritional needs are met children who are deprived of touching this way tend to grow up unusually small, score poorly on tests and have massively elevated levels of stress hormones. An adult Jim Baker describes himself as as a child as slow small and not particularly bright. Like this is how he describes himself and and whether or not yeah it's a bummer.