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I've been getting acquainted with a weighted blanket this week.

It's like a blanket that's made out of chainmail.

It's covered in a soft fabric, but it's exceptionally heavy.

It's 10 kilograms.

It's a 10 kilogram blanket that I wrap around my body.

It had been recommended to me as an intervention, or no, I suppose an accommodation, because I'm autistic.

for ages I thought that's a lot of bullshit how could a heavy blanket help me in any way that sounds like nonsense but I have to report it's fucking magnificent I don't know what it's doing and I don't know what it's helping all I can say is that it definitely fucking works whatever that is I can't put words to what that is

When I wear the weighted blanket, if I'm just sitting on the couch, after about 10 minutes, I don't know, I get the feeling of, the feeling you get when you've just had a really, really good stretch.

I get that feeling.

So I have difficulty switching off.

My mind is consistently active.

My body is consistently active.

The example I always use is I work in an office building and in my office building there's loads of other offices on my corridor and to save money the building doesn't allow light switches in individual offices so instead the lights turn on if you move and on my corridor there's there's some people who sit down at their desks

And they remain so still that the lights just turn off.

And they sit in their offices, not in darkness, just with daylight coming in, but they're so still that their lights don't turn on in their fucking office.

And I marvel at the impossibility of that.