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Squeeze Machine

I would guess that this is a form of deep pressure therapy...

I have never tried it, but I have always found heavy blankets, etc to be very relaxing...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine

http://www.grandin.com/inc/intro-squeeze.html
 
I wouldn't want one of those. I don't particularly like the idea of lying in a machine that squeezes me as a substitute for people.
How sad would that be. It would make me depressed as hell relying on a machine to hug me.

Trivia: there's an internet meme called hug box about the squeeze machine, there's an ED article and stuff. I think the use of the hugbox meme is if some aspie on the internet is whinging about something you say "go back in your hugbox ass pie" or summat like that.
 
I could actually give that a pretty quick try if I could? But if it tries to kill me, I'd best sell it send it to one good place?

The bin! :P
 
Temple Grandan designed the squeeze machine i believe? i would give it a try seems i need a hug sometimes but i cant stand being touched so might help
 
Mike said:
i dont like that temple grandin woman
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I think she's alright, I've read her book "thinking in pictures" and most of it was enjoyable to read especially the theory with the senses and thought processes of autistics being similar to that of animals, it's an interesting concept. But some parts of the book were really boring like when she kept banging on about cows.
 
i thought that she was a bit condescending and what she says, she seems to always refer to cattle, almost saying that people with autism are like cattle
 
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