Enjoy mild pain

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Just because something feels good does not make it sexual people!
Basically you are sensory seeking. Are there sensations that you like more than others? I used to put rubber bands around my arms and snap them against my skin. On the more scary side my five year old used to close her hand in the hing of doors because she liked the pain and deep pressure. Sometimes this type of sensory seeking can be dangerous so if you are causing bruising, welting or cutting of your skin you should try to get some help so you can find safer ways of dealing with it.

My co-workers, my bosses, and I use to love to get new guys to grab extremely hot metal parts I was working on. The bosses or co-workers would bring them into my backroom where I did the metal polishing so they could see how to do metal polishing in case I was sick. I would polish a junk part to a point where I could barely hold due the heat then the boss tell me to show him the part so I would hand him the red hot part then we would watch the new guy scream and juggle the part. The employees who were in the room would call the new guy a p**** for not being able to hold the part. One time I picked the hot part off the ground then said "its cooled down" then handed it back to the guy who dropped it only to burn his hand a second time and him dropping it again.

I also enjoy mild pain and even moderate pain at times...both as a sensation in itself and sexually. I don't like blood or things going into my skin though, just intense pressure, being squeesed or hit.

I hope this doesn't cross the line to inappropriate, if it does please feel free to delete it.

I find this topic interesting because I AM, in fact, into BDSM and do enjoy pain, but it's very specific. Mainly heavy impacts like punching on my back or thighs... Usually I engage in this activity until my partner is exhausted or I get bored, but there's no pain even when my shoulders are black and blue. I enjoy the after feeling for days, the aching when I move. It feels good to me.

But then if I am pinched or something superficial like that I have an intense reaction of anger or, occasionally, it can send me into a meltdown... oddly, still not painful, just over stimulating.

I never thought that my high pain tolerance could be related to Asperger/ASD

I HATE PAIN!! !

what do you mean by mild pain?
I don't like pain, but I like strong pressure. Like using objects to compress my fingers. Maybe this could be considered pain to some people, or probably not.
yes there is a relation to autism because we may be hyposensitive to some stimuli, or feel numb sometimes. But it is not exclusive of autism of course! Every other friend has some kind of habit that hurts themselves like eating their bottom lips' surface until it bleeds. like KoR said this kind of thing releases good stuff in the brain

i have a weirdly high pain tolerance, though i wouldn't say i enjoy pain at all--it's more that i seem to be able to selectively ignore it so it sinks into the background of my conscious awareness and is more easily tolerated.

for example: i have one last sitting to go on a tattoo i'm getting on my left forearm--it's basically going to be a sleeve with about 85-90% coverage from wrist to elbow; so far i have sat through two separate 3-31/2 hr sessions, one for the all the outlining and one for all the background colour (sort of speckled variations of light and dark cobalt blue and light and dark violet), which comes out to about 50% of coverage of my forearm thusfar. much of the heaviest coverage so far is around my wrist because part of the purpose of this tattoo was to help cover up an older "bracelet" of frogs around my wrist from many years ago. anyone who has experience with tattoos knows that the wrist is a particularly painful area because for most people it's a bony region without much flesh to cushion the needle's vibrations. as long as i have music playing or something to watch (a film or tv show--i find comedy especially effective in this circumstance) to keep my mind occupied i can just sort of tune the pain out, and afterwards i just feel tired and hungry.

i think i read somewhere that unusual tolerance for pain and also temperature variation are common traits of people on the spectrum. possibly tony attwood mentions it in his book the complete guide to asperger's syndrome (the first book i read on the subject when i was diagnosed).