She doesn't remember her birth family and she's not sure if her and Chantalle count, so she can't really speak on the topic of the relation of cuddling in the family and later cuddling habits.

But she thinks she gets the second one. "Did they do it to make fun of you or to show you that they were stronger?" Whenever she's seen metahumans do that to one another, it seemed to be some form of that. There's of course the form that she has experienced herself - people picking her up and not caring that she didn't want them to - but she's not sure why they do that. It seems to be more like they don't understand that a cat has a legit will, too, and that's just metahumans being dumb.