Anyone else with aspergers have hypo sensitivity?

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And I mean hypo not hyper to be clear. I have poor senses and no reflexes (You know that test where the doctor taps your knee? I don't react). One thing that affects me every day is I can't small very well and my mom can smell really well-she even loves candles for their scent which I can't even enjoy which sucks. I can smell them but only when they are literally up in my noses space. or I'm surrounded by tons of them like in the store. My just asked me to come smell something and I kept saying "I can't smell well." That's not the only thing hyposensitive about me it just affects me a lot living with a mom who can smell so well and is always pointing those things out.

Anyone else hypo sensitive with aspergers and not hyper?

Actually I am hyper sensitive-but only with skin to skin so it's not enough to call hyper sensitivity.

I can barely smell anything anymore, but other senses, mostly hearing and tasting are more hypersensitive.

I don't know what to call it, but I am seriously gorilla armed. I can easily write through 6 sheets of paper, over-tighten bolts to the point they have to replace the whole tool holder instead of just the insert, I break pens, pencils and hex wrenches constantly and have even damaged buttons from pushing them too hard. My door is damaged from slamming it too hard as is the windows in my house. At work, when I did a change-over, I tightened the locking bolts on the tailstock so tight nobody could reposition it and for about a week, nobody ran the lathe because the parts it was set up for weren't available and nobody could change it over.

That's really interesting because smell is supposed to be a big part of taste. I have a weak sense of smell and taste, but I always attributed the weak taste to the weak smell, i.e. I only have trouble tasting things because the taste is diminished due to lack of smell. I could be wrong about that.

I have proprioceptive hyposensitivity.

I'm not sure if this exactly what you are looking for, but I experience vestibular hypofunction. It means I sense motion after the motion has started and keep feeling it after it has stopped. I also have problems telling how fast or slow I am moving. An example is walking into corners because I can't tell how fast I am turning.

I don't smell very well and smells that bothers most people don't bother me. I have even drank sour milk.

I have some hyposenstivity to pain like I once had a wart on my toe and I got it removed and it didn't start hurting until the doctor was through. He told me it will hurt when he does it and I felt nothing and he said it was good. then after he was done, I felt it all of a sudden. I also don't feel much down there much during a papsmear. Someone told me I was lucky because it's like I'm numbed and she is hypersensitive and doctors think she is being a big baby. I also did good during labor too and doctors told me I was being a very good patient and doing better than other moms in labor. I did feel the sharp intense pain and they had to check my cervix to see I really was having the baby despite not acting like it. I also think I have gotten used to pain because I fell down a lot as a kid due to clumsiness so I got used to the pain and it doesn't hurt as much. I used to cry and run to my parents about it so they can take care of it but as I got older, I would take care of it myself and ask for the band aids.

Yes, pain. Which comes in very useful.

I have orthostatic hypotension, meaning I can not arise from a reclining/supine/lupine position unless I do it in stages.

I've had selective Hypo Sensitivity.

sometime go numb if near a meltdown, usually a warning sign, but also go numb when injured, feel pain normally to a point then I just forget its there.

One example was when I was a lot younger use to like playing with gunpowder/cordite, one went off in my hand and striped my knuckle to the bone.

Bent the finger a couple of times while watching the knuckle joint in action thinking "probably not going to be able to hide that from mum"

Went over to the mirror and had a look, my favourite white tee shirt was saturated in blood from top to bottom, and 1/2 inche of serrated metal was sticking out of my neck.

Thought to myself "S**t that's my favourite shirt and it's absolutely ruined, oh note to self probably also best to leave the bit of metal alone"

Went down stairs, Mum took one good look seemed to guess what happened.

Went to hospital in an ambulance and doctors were freaking out, something about serrated metal physically touching wall of major blood vessel in my neck.

Healed relatively quick, did not cause me much pain (if any)?

Me too. Everything else is hypersensitive, though.

I have hypo sensitivity to pain, too. Someone along my endless line of doctors, specialists, surgeons, etc once said it was perhaps due to being born with two chronic pain conditions, so the brain restructured in order to make living bearable with that amount of natural pain. I still live with one, but grew out of the other around (severely delayed) puberty. As said above, it does have its advantages - I just had major surgery without any form of pain relief, for example, when the nurses were trying to push morphine on me. Someone told me their friend had had similar surgery and was in bed for weeks, strung out on Oxycontin, whereas I was released from hospital after one day and completely fine within three days. I am also insensitive to many drugs - I was still conscious even after the sedation during my surgery, enough that I put myself on the operating table and the anaesthetist freaked out.

I believe I am hyposensitive to many drugs. For example, after my last filling, the Dentist had to give three shots of the numbing agent and I still felt a small bit of pain. Many 'highly effective' drugs seem to have barely noticeable effects on me as well.

I don't really smell anything unless i deliberately try to, i am indifferent to (ambient) temperature, nor do i feel pain from traditionally painful things (extreme heat/cold, cuts, bruises... but soft touch hurts like hell, so i can be hurt).

I also have trouble with depth perception, but that is becouse i only use my periferal vision, for everything, which invalidates my 3D, and i don't think this qualifies either...


For all my senses, however, i can increase and decrease the sensitivity, both per sense and as a whole

Both of those have nothing to do with sensory hyposensitivity. Sensory hyposensitivity is when, despite normal ability in the sense organs, a person has difficulty detecting a sensation or underreacts to it due to differences in brain wiring.

The change in heart rate due to postural shifts is controlled by a different part of the brain than conscious sensation. The body's response to drugs is often not related to the brain at all, but rather controlled by the liver. (The liver creates enzymes to bind to toxins detected in the bloodstream, and it thinks drugs are toxins. So if you have a really strong liver, drugs won't affect you as much.)

Not necessarily, there is a reason the placebo effect is well known by medical professionals. As for a liver, I doubt I have a strong one: liver disease is rampant in my family.