Are you Hyper/Hypo sensitive to pain?

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Well since we are doing stories I guess i should tell you about the time i fell off my scooter... I was only about 10/11 but i used to live on a steep hill and i had an expensive scooter. I rode down the hill i suppose i was travilling at about 15 mph and i hit a sticky-up bit of concrete on the pavement and i flew and did a full flip over the handlebars and landed on the pavement kerb. I got up and limped back home It didn't hurt much and it was just a bad graze. My mum sat me down on the floor and made me some lunch whilst i sat and watched a film.... My mum called me for lunch and i paused the film and tried to get up... but i couldn't! So there i was stuck on the floor with no pain in foot but something was obviously wrong so my mum and mum's PA had to lift me on the sofa and catch a lift in my mum's PA's car. When i got to hospital they offered me painkillers but when i said there was no pain the nurse gave me an worried look and walked away. 2-3 hours later! the doctor saw me and I had a broken ankle!! I had crutches and a cast for 6 weeks!! and i hadn't felt a thing since! The worst part was doing my year 6 S.A.T.S. in a cast that sucked

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I believe there is a BIG difference between men and women Aspies/Auties and their reaction to pain.

Aspie women who embrace more their masculinity (yes, ladies Aspie women have an extreme male brain, too!) will be less sensitive to physical pain, but more sensitive to emotional pain, or frustration/anxiety.
Aspie women who have embraced their feminine bodies more and have placed their masculine brain in a secondary position, will experience physicla pain much more intensely than emotiona pain from anxiety/frustration.

With men Aspies it is the opposite. The male Aspies have a more female brain than their NT counterparts (no wonder they like poetry right?) and will be more sensitive to physical an demtional pain in a different way.
Men who have embraced their female brain, and their sensitivity, will be more sensitive to physical pain and less to emotional pain from anxiety/frustration.
Men Aspies who have focused on their male bodies and have placed their sensitivity in a sort of background function will be more sensitive to emotiona pain than physicla pain.

It would be interesting to have a separate poll for each category.

Star

Also don't forget that fear has a dual expression of anxiety and pleasure. What scares us also gives us great plesure and (erotic) arousal. Freud called this reactio Eros and Thanatos (Love and Death = meaning that we seem to love what is a potential deadly encounter).

Star

Where did you get that from?

I've embraced my alien brain.

When I was a baby, my mom would never know I had an ear infection until she took me to the doctor for something else, like a diaper rash, and then the doctor would find the ear infection. Also, when I was 11 my ear drum ruptured because I didn't know I had an ear infection, and it went untreated for so long. This was also discovered when I was at the doctor for something else.

When I was twelve, I got the flu, which inflamed my appendix and triggered appendicitis. The first day the pain started, I told my mom my stomach hurt, but didn't mention it after that, so that by the time I got to the hospital five days later (with a fever above 105 and not really lucid), the doctors had no idea I was in any pain. Finally, a week after developing appendicitis, and probably about five days after my appendix had ruptured, spreading infection through my abdomen, and causing infection in my abdominal lining itself (peritonitis), the doctors figured out what was wrong with me and I had an operation. Why did it take so long? Apparently I didn't tell anyone at the hospital the kind of pain I was in- for 2 days they thought I had mono! Finally, several infectious disease specialists, an x-ray, and a CT scan later, they figured out what was wrong. I was in the hospital almost a month, and missed six weeks of school. If I had just made a fuss about the pain the first day, the appendicitis could have been treated, and I probably would have only spent a day or two in the hospital!

So, to parents of AS/NLD children- be careful when they're sick! They could be minimizing their symptoms because pain doesn't bother them as much as it does other people. Actually, I was so cavalier about the different procedures (including a percutaneous procedure to drain an abscess behind my liver- while I was awake), that the nurses would joke that if I ever was pregnant, the baby would probably be half out before I told someone I thought I was in labor.

Unfortunately, there is an additional problem. Even if we tell we have pain our facial expression and body language does not show HOW much pain we have and the NTs that treat us do not take our words into great concideration and do not treat us.

Yes, I am experiencing this kind of $h!t every day. I tell my doctor I have pain, I tell my neurologist, I tell my psychologist do they take me seriously? NO! They hear the words but do not receive the visual pain cues and they have troubke believing the extend of the pain that I feel.

They know I have AS I tell them the moment I meet them, I bring it up again and still no effect. Tiring, very tiring especially when one has pain.

Star

Pain is a rather strange thing for me.. both internal and external pain Im acutely aware of (unless sensory overload from another source distracts me then you can chop off a limb and I wouldnt notice until I tried to use it) however it doesnt really effect or deter me.. pain doesnt "hurt" I guess.

Prick me with a needle and it feels like your stabbing me with a knife but if I have a good reason to want or need to and Ill stick my hand in a flame without hesitation.

As another has stated though.. very hot or cold foods and drinks I cant tolerate.. I think my maximum is a range of about 130 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

As for doctors.. once I sprained my ankle and to verify he decided to prod around at it.

Doctor: Does this hurt?
Me: No.
Doctor: Does this?
Me: Yes (no change of expression).
*doctor starts pressing harder*
Doctor: How about now?
Me: Yes.

Ended up taking half an hour and some tests to convince him I was injured.. but ended up with little round finger shaped bruises all over my ankle and foot.

I'm hypersensitive to some pain, and completely indifferent to some others. For instance, dropping something small on my toe, excruciating. Getting a tattoo, enjoyable. Childbirth without medications, not a big deal. I seem to amaze people by tolerating, unflinchingly, what most people would scream from...and then hopping around like a fool after dropping some small object on my foot!

I am fairly hyposensitive to pain. I also find that over the counter painkillers very seldom offer any relief from when I do get pain that bugs me. Usually it is headaches that really hurt.
I got ear infections pretty much every year when I was little and it was always really bad before I told my mom.
I am often getting ingrown toe nails because I don't notice when the nail begins growing in and swelling up.
In high school I played with an incredibly infected ingrown toe nail on my big toe for an entire basketball season. The only time it really hurt was when someone stepped down right on it, otherwise it was a dull throb that easily faded away hen I was doing anything. It took a couple of trips to the doctor to take care of that one. I poked and proded at that toe for weeks trying to get the nail up and clean out the puss. I finally just recently learned how to cut and lift up the nail myself to relieve the ingrown toe and allow it to heal naturally and quickly.
I have been getting strep throat the last few years, but it never feels bad enough to warrant seeing the doctor.
I injured my foot trying to learn hapkido kicks. I felt and heard something pop and my foot swelled up. I couldn't walk on it normally for over a month.
I tore open the corner of my mouth when my bike malfunctioned and pitched my over the handlebars on my face. It swelled up so much I could only eat from a straw and sucking on popsicles. Didn't take any pain killers, just put the popsicle on it.

I like pushing down on bruises slightly to feel the sensation. Especially on my head when i hit it hard on something. The sensation of pressure on a bump is pretty unique.

both, not at all, and changes depending on what

I have a high tolerance for pain.

And in certain bedroom activities I rather enjoy it