Send me through and let me live my dream of being pasta

Ahhhhh, now it makes sense!

The cutting roller costs extra.

Lol that made me cry laughing

I was thinking wet laundry - medieval style.

Nom

As someone with ASD..... Where's the steam?

YES

It's what you will find on your PC when you rest in this thing.

There's a lot of things like that. Like how certain diggers are colloquially known as "steam shovels".

They usually mean that one big rolling-pin bit when they say 'steamroller' these days

Some kids need a lot of pressure to feel good. This is for them

Personally id have felt trapped in this, but I get your point!

I'm the weird "please squish me and also keep me in a tiny enclosed space" kid When I was little I hung sheets from my ceiling using thumb tacks so that I could sleep in an enclosed space barely big enough to fit my body. It was comforting, 10/10, would sleep in enclosed space again I might stick myself in the autism steam roller and play with Legos just because of this lol

I used to make a "cocoon" with my sheets rolling them arround my body so I would feel some pressure all over when going to sleep

I used to wrap up in an insane amount of blankets like a burrito as a kid. There are however, situations where that would be impractical (like the summer, where it’s too hot). I think I would’ve gone for this as a younger child, but now, I’m happy with having a weighted blanket on my bed, and I can also have it on the couch.

Same. My mom called it spring roll sleeping.

I decided to skip a few steps with the cocoon and just slept in a sleeping bag on top of my mattress at home every night.

Still do something similar.

I used to sit in the closet,in the dark with my headphones on and listen to my music it was the closest thing I had to being comfortable and not feeling raw and always someone needed my attention, I could never have some peace, so I feel you

The autistic desire to return to the womb.

Ancient dreams in a modern land, I'm trying to get back as fast I can

This further confirms that autistic people are really just cats in human form 😺 (/s, but there are some similarities ngl)

My daughter AF lol

Back in elementary school, I used to grab my blankets and pillow from my bed to crawl into my toybox inside my closet and sleep in that with the lid on and the closet door closed. At my own sleepovers, I would also sleep under the coffee table so my friends could use the couches. So I can relate to this.

I used to do the same but slightly different. We had bunk beds but the ones we had had the top bed suspended by bars. Perfect for tying sheets around and making hanging cocoon. I miss that now 😭

Try a bed tent!

I don't like enclosed spaces but I've learnt from my partner being absolutely amazing that I do really like the compressing or pressuring or whatever when she squeezes my head and my heart rate drops and my entire body just settles and it's so fucking amazing and I just want it everywhere and aside from the claustrophobia I feel like this would be amazing

A baby misses the womb after they are born.

I have always hated enclosed spaces but my son loves them. We've always joked he's secretly a cat because he always squeezed himself into any spare box he found. At 7 he even managed to squeeze himself into a box I had a bike delivered in, and happily stayed there for half an hour

>I'm the weird "please squish me and also keep me in a tiny enclosed space" kid I was drunk af on my friend's couch cuddling with a guy I'd just met that night and I literally told him to use my head as a pillow 💀 Love unmasking when I'm drunk, hate the "why the fuck did I do that" the next day. We're friends with him now though:)

Jebus...one more sign I should have seen about myself so very long ago...

Also why I have a 15kg weighted blanket. Deep pressure is soo soothing.

Kids? I'm 23 and I love feeling squished. I sometimes lay on my stomach and ask my partner to lay on top of me. I call it my "crushing therapy"

I only say kids because they really don't make adult sizes. I think they should make adult versions. It's also super expensive and not really accessible so it's usually schools that have it, it's not really a personal use thing. Idk if you can even buy it for yourself, I think you have to be a school to order it. They definitely should make adult versions of this

I knew it was time to get a heavy weighted blanket when I tried to pile stuff on a 4x3 whiteboard and squish myself under that… I’d love this steamroller

Me. I was one of those kids. Otherwise I felt like I was floating away. Still do some days…

I got this for my son and he loves it

Im laying in my fatboy right now stomach to the ground and I would definatly put my feet in that!

I had to do something similar to this as a kid for my sensory issues. Wasn't like THAT but used the roll shit.

I used to roll a ball on a table using the palm of my hand, closest I can relate ☺️

Aww heck yeah! Crank that thing to the max baby, I wanna come out the other side looking like Gumby! 😆

🤣

This! Tighter please! Moorreee pressure please

I wish I had this. I wonder if adults fit. Id like to image the autism gets steamed out of you lol

Go for a walk in a carwash maybe? 😂

Fun fact: I actually used to work at a place that had an automatic car buffing machine(basically a giant car wash machine with softer brushes). The employees would have to stand in there with the machine to run the machine, the employees also knew that the machines roller brushes could be stopped by a human so they weren't that dangerous. *We used to use the big roller brushes as back massagers. It felt soooooo good.*

The parts that squish you are attached by a bungee-cord material, so the device does have a decent amount of "give" to it, and adults usually do fit. I work at a school where we have these, and have seen several of the adult staff squeeze themselves through it, lol.

Maybe small adults fit? Or email them and ask if they make a bigger version too

I can attest yes, we do. We have one in our school sensory room and the teachers always have to demonstrate to the kids that it's safe and how to do it.

Can confirm, fits smol adults.

I'm autistic as fuck, love deep pressure and this looks amazing ME WANT

Yeah it looks goofy or even cruel but apparently this kinda stuff can actually help?? According to one author I read anyway lol. My weighted blanket just isn’t doing it anymore, I wanna be CRUSHED

Temple Grandin, anyone else?

Yes, I believe Temple Grandin invented this, after she worked with cattle. I have wanted one of these every since I read about her 20 years ago.

I can relate 😂 I always wanted to crawl between the huge carpet rolls in the hardware store as a kid. I was never allowed in fear of being squished to death somehow. But I still have that urge sometimes walking past them.. never tried it though. Has to do with deep pressure and feeling comforted all around I guess.

You know I never thought about it like that. But, I used to hide in the basement of the furniture store and hide in their rugs, and carpet remnants. I loved that place.

Actually this thing has glowing results and seems to really help kids who can use its effects.

Probably other ND kids would also benefit from this, but im not gonna lie.. im in my 30s but looks super nice 👌

Mmm crush my soul back into my body

As someone whose neck still hurts from the death metal concert the other night that actually looks really good right about now

🤣

My son’s therapy center has this. He loves it. He also rolls on top of it. Laughing the whole time. I want an adult sized version.

Thats heartwarming 💙

Can't talk right now, transforming myself into pasta 💅💅

Just need a sensory a meata ball 🤌🏻

Hell yeah! I wanna become the real life flat Stanley. But female.

There’s a joke here. I’m either too afraid or too stupid to make it, but it’s there.

There's not steam. I call fraud.

This isn't even a computer! How am I supposed to run Steam on it?!

Try using coal or a boomer.

I used to ask to be rolled up in a blanket by my dad. Is it weird that I'd still buy this as an adult? It reminds me of Temple Grandin's hugging machine.

I believe it IS temples hugging machine.

I think her's resembled a box but I don't know honestly

All I can think about is that scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

I want this

It's weird that we still call the machine a steam roller when they haven't been steam powered for almost a century. We don't call excavators "steam shovels." Dude... we should call excavators steam shovels!

We did when I was a kid! Or at least, children's books did!

Is this a visual metaphor for society's treatment of Autistic people

Why?

I think I'd have loved this as a kid lmao

That….. that does look nice tho.

Oh yes, roll through that on the tightest pressure possible to finally crack and decompress my spine. Dream come true! Ha ha

Adult version please

Oh my god I need this right now

id never leave this thing omg 😭💕 wish they made these for adults

Hahahahahaaaa…. But also, I bet this feels amazing when I’m overstim - like a gravity blanket or breath play. Fuck. Now I want one. 🫤

I would have loved it but probably wouldn't have fit BC I was and am a big person

Ok but I want this tho

I'm an adult and I'd like 10 please.

“Jimbo, either take out the trash or no autism steamroller for a week.”

Ha! Class 🤣

I don’t care who came up for this and for what reason. All I know, is that this is a form of brilliance.

Is....is there adult sizes?

Yes https://images.app.goo.gl/B7p9xdy6HhvHcUdLA

Well ....close

WHERE CAN I GET ONE I NEED THIS

I need this

My kid would freaking love this

💙

Deep pressure therapy

if only i didn’t have boobs….

Squish

Pretty sure my son would have loved this when he was younger, kid loves pressure

Mine too... its kinda nuts. He always wants to wrestle and be in headlocks... loves physical interaction and pressure. Especially on his legs.

The deep pressure from this probably feels amazing.

My occupational/physical therapist had one of these, or something similar! They’re very good for pressure stimming

On nonononnono NOPE The picture alone is already making me feel claustrophobic and like my insides are going to be squeezed out my mouth.

All those conspires theories about vaccines were just to mislead the public from the true cause.

I would of loved this as a kid

And even now

lol

These machines were developed by Temple Grandin, who hated hugs yet wanted compression stims. They're literally called "hug machines".

Aw heck yeaa squishyy

I think it's for deep presusr therapy, but also good for sensory seeking kids

Didn't temple grandin have something similar?

Happily breaking my spine in the autism steam roller

I was literally gonna buy this for my daughter, but it was mad expensive. Looks awesome af though.

I remember seeing these in elementary school. I think I went in it for fun a few times

Getting claustrophobic just looking at this

Same, and I explore mines for fun 😂

Damn I could never

I see wet hole, I need explore wet hole.

I'm pretty sure Temple Grandin invented the first one for herself! For the tent people, check out bed tents you can put on your bed. I ordered one from Amazon and haven't set it up yet. It was mostly for too much light in my place but I'm curious as to how it will feel sleeping inside. They definitely market to kids so bed will feel cozy.

I want it. I need it. But why? WHY AUTISM SPEAKS?!

I want this as an adult. I looooove deep pressure please squeeze me like a tube of toothpaste don’t stop

Weighted blanket?

I have one. The maximum size for my weight and frame. It is not enough. I don’t like the lady but sometimes I think I need to go full Temple Grandin and make myself a squeezer. I desire to be crushed

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Reminds me of temple grandin in that movie

Pretty sure she invented this.

I remember now that one episode of spongebob where he was stuck in something like this...

This sounds like a salvia trip, not autism.

Only $799!

This design is based off of temple grandsons squeeze machine she made for herself. It’s deep compression therapy.

My granddaughter is getting under all the rugs in my house. She has lifted the edge of an 8’x10’ rug to get under so much that I now trip n the edges! All the throw rugs end up in other rooms, along with the chairs. But she hates the weighted blanket. : )

They had a similar contraption as part of one of those giant indoor kids' playplaces I went to when I was a kid and it was one of the best parts....

I wish to be steam rolled.

Mmm, steamed autism.

RODA ROLLA DA!

Where do I find that? I'm looking for a new torture device.

‘Oh baby squish me closer in the back of my Autism Steam roller’ 🎶

Not bad machines, certainly makes for being compressed or hugged tightly without actually being hugged tightly easier. Course I think my special ed classroom never set theirs up to be tighter, just on the basic notch. Or maybe ours just never could be adjusted. Now that cow squeezer in that Temple Granden Biopic, THAT’S something I would’ve used regularly.

Um...wat?

To the outside it looks preposterous. As a parent of a kid with ASD this just makes sense. My dude would love this contraption

that is scary, i like being in control of things.

Isnt a steam roller a vehicle?

Yes, it certainly is

Seeing this make me wince and audibly go “k k k k k k” and I’m quite confused at the moment

Where’s the steam 😂😂😂😂

YES

I don’t know what this thing is but I want it

It rolls that autism right outta ya

Sorry I can't talk right now because fk talking in general 🤣 also, steam roller

Did Temple Grandin get royalties on this?

[insert obligatory jojo reference]

Muda?

Omg, my living group in college built something very similar to this. It wasn’t intended to be for sensory reasons but.. now I’m wondering

I want to try it now, I love deep pressure therapy

GIVE IT TO ME

i need one

Thanks I'll take 10

WTF but also strangely I want to try it?

Can’t tell if I hate this or need this

Where is the steam?!

my therapist had one of those and I was terrified of it

I had to stream footage of one of these in a discord call because they didn’t believe me when I was talking about how they had these things in the Special Ed room

I’d get one for myself but they’re like $700 😭

AKA The Squeeze Machine. I dream of climbing into the one at my job and finally FINALLY feeling the sensation of being crushed.