Deep Body Pressure

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I totally crave it.

I love a good firm massage, tight hugs, and any otehr kind of pressure I can get, although I HATE my face being covered by blankets or pillows.

I use to sleep with the quilt wrapped tightly around my head and my arms wrapped around me, so I lie on them so to speak. Wrapping the quilt tightly around all my body is nice too, but it's more troublesome if something itches at a time and I have to unwrap, scratch and then wrap again.
Guess this might count as a kind of deep pressure.
Tight hugs are nice too. If they are expected.

As far as I can remember, I have always liked deep pressure very much!

In elementary school, we played a variation of the game "Musical Chairs", where - if no chairs were left - the children had to sit on each other; until the entire class was on about 6 chairs; and the stacks of pupils toppled...
I loved that game; especially if many other children sat on me .

As I came into puberty, I thought I had some kind of fetish ,because I would have liked if other people sat or laid on me...
In the end of 2009, I found T. Grandin's article on deep pressure and her hug machine. That explained a lot - and I realized that that wasn't a fetish...

Then, I looked for ways of getting deep pressure. I even tried putting a sofa on top of me ; but that didn't really work because the sofa was too bulky...
A better way was putting two mattresses on top of each other, and a box with about 40kg (90lbs) of paper on top of it. Then, I crawled between the mattresses - and stayed there for like half an hour and then came out totally relaxed .

Also, bags of sand or even cement are perfect:
My father had some cement left over; one 40kg (90lbs) bag; and some 25kg (55lbs) bags.
I took the 40kg bag, sat down on a chair and put the bag on my lap.
That felt nice; but it wasn't enough weight . So I took two additional 25kg bags and laid them on top of the 40kg bag. Then it was very relaxing and calming...

And I thought how strange this would look to a NT:
There is someone sitting on a chair, with 90kg (200lbs) of cement on his lap, and he seems completely calm and doesn't even try to get the cement off him .
But I would't recommend using cement bags; because cement is strongly alkaline and harmful to skin and eyes.

I am also thinking of building a "squeeze machine"; but at the moment I havn't got enough space for such a huge thing (I have already drawn a CAD model of it; the machine would be 80cm (31") wide, 110cm (43") long and 162cm (64") high).

The easier and cheaper alternative are sand bags:
Get some playing sand (because - in contrast to building sand - it's clean and sterilized); this isn't expensive. And get some heavy cloth to sew a bag. Denim should be perfect, because it's very strong and has a fine structure so that the sand won't fall out.
For me, I would make one big (but still manageable) bag; with about 50kg (110lbs). And perhaps (if i want more weight...) some small bags which I can lift with one hand without problems; let's say about 10kg (22lbs).
I think I will do this soon: The sand bags are cheap, easy to make, don't need much space, and much more healthy than cement bags...

And hugging people doen't give me calming feeling: It's to much stress, and too little pressure: Most people don't like if I hug them really hard .

My contact person has applied on my behalf at the local authority for a weighted blanket, or weighted quilt. At first on trial.
I'm curious to see what it is like.

Neat thread!

Go hugs! I love love love big ol' gnarly hugs that just don't stop. Most people give these really timid "ummm...yeah, ok" kind of hugs, but every once in a while you can find someone that puts their back into it, maybe even picks you up. Totally a platonic, nonsexual things for me. But then I think sex might be a platonic thing for me, too

...Sex just seems like a conversation by way of touching to me, and I think "in touches" a lot, so I have a hard time understanding/sympathizing with the sort of ownership & devotion issues that people impose on sex "having".

Why do you "give" a hug, but "have" or "take" sex? Makes no sense to me. Both should be "sharing," not "giving" or "taking." (sorry if i'm sidetracking the thread here...)

Claustrophilia! I like to hang out under the bed with my kitten. :D

I like being tightly hugged. It makes me feel loved and fuzzy inside.

Only to certian parts of my body such as my knuckles and other joints. Every chiropracter I have ever been to says he wishes all of his paitents were as relaxed as I am. I HATE, HATE, HATE being hugged. If anyone comes up to me, throws their hands over my eyes and pulls that stupid "Guess who" thing, they get punched, kicked and spat on.

I don't really require as much pressure as I used to, but perhaps that's becuase I often go to a chiropracter or perhaps am not so stressed all the time. I really would probably bennefit from a squeeze machine but I can't afford one of those. If Autism Speaks truely wanted to help us, you think they would at least provide some assistance for getting one. I used to bribe my parents' 90lb bloodhound cross into jumping on top of my back and lying there. But as soon as the treats were gone, he would just jump right back down. I was actualy looking into getting a mastif, speficaly for the purpose of giving me deep pressure. But I worried it would become agressive becuase it would think it was dominant over me.

I could really use a squeeze machine but I can't get one.

Thank you for the mattress idea. You rock.

I cannot tolerate most, if not all, forms of physical contact.

oh, this is fun:

http://hugmachine.org/

DIY squeeze machine instructions. Price tag looks like $240, but I'm sure you could salvage most of the materials and make one for next to nothing.

I don't think this air mattress will deliver much pressure. At least, the whole construction doesn't seem very strong.
So, I don't see a real advantage compared to a heavy bag of (for example) sand.
If I had the space for a squeeze machine, I would build a "real" one, with a pneumatic cylinder.


I've never met someone who hugged me really hard...
And I think most people don't like being picked up while being hugged. For most people, this would be too sexual...
I would't like being picked up unasked. However, I would like picking someone up .


Thanks!

And another "story":
About 3 years ago, I had to pack some old magazines into boxes. And somehow, I forgot how heavy a lot of paper is...
So, I filled one large box completely with magazines. I was barely able to lift the box. And for some reason, I was interested in the weight and put it on the scale. It was nearly 70kg/155lbs.
And then, I just wanted to know how it feels lying under this box . So I lifted it on a chair (which was really difficult), laid down on the carpet floor, and pulled the box down on me.
That felt quite nice, despite the box and the floor were hard (why didn't I use a mattress or at least a blanket? ).

And this happened before I knew of autism. I still thought my desire for pressure was a fetish...

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And since we moved and I have a nice own room with my own computer, I do much more stimming (especially running/jumping around anf flapping with the hands and arms) because I don't annoy someone with my stimming; and I became stronger... Nowadays, I lift 155lbs without big problems (and I weigh about 145lbs; my weight didn't really change the last ~5 years). So, stimming IS useful!
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Deep pressure makes me feel calm.

I often have my husband lie on top of me like a blanket for significant periods of time, it relaxes me.

Often when I feel bad I apply deep pressure to my arms by lying on them but it isn't the same. Need more pressure, more "all over".

i MUST sleep on my side with my head buried in my arm. and if im not on my side i MUST have my lead apron or some sort of deep pressure

No---I do not like tight hugs, squeezes, or body pressures.

I LOVE and NEED deep pressure, and it's wayyyy more than "a massage." This is gonna sound really weird, but it is so wonderful. I have two queen size mattresses (not a box spring, just the mattresses one on top of the other), and I lay between them for a half hour at a time. It's very deep pressure and I even turn on my sides and onto my back and onto my stomach. I know most people couldn't stand this and might feel suffocated, but it works wonders and is easy to get in and out of. I don't sleep this way (I have a separate, normal bed with weighted blankets for sleeping), but I use it the way some people might use a valium. It just calms me down soooo much. For hours afterward.