Pain

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Is it normal to feel pain less at certain times due to anxiety / sensory overload?

Emotional or physical pain?- It's normal to feel more pain when overloaded in the physical sense as the overload seems to interrupt the endorphin stimulating pathways. Also dependent on the type of stim whether sympathetic or parasympathetic pathways are being stimulated can influence the experience of pain. Empirically I would say that emotional pain is decreased temporarily with increased stim but the increase stim eventually leads to an exhaustion that makes the emotional pain more profound, in the long term- Does that help? Or was it a rhetorical cry from the outset?

Yeah, my threshold for pain varies.

WIth pain being a nervous signal, I wouldn't be surprised if it is felt differently during overloads.
Pain is relative, something only hurts in relation to something else you have felt, so maybe you can forget what pain feels like if you don't experience it for a long time (so that when you do it hurts alot) but if you experience it alot, you maybe become desensitised.

I seem to be rambling foar too much today on semi hypothetical gibberish though - I wish that I could type my essays like this...

Actually I think that's true for everyone, not just Aspies. There's physical reason for it, when you get upset your body reacts as if it is about to get hurt, and starts preparing itself by thickening the blood and releasing chemicals. If you get hurt while you are very upset, you won't feel it as much as if you were calm. That's why some depressed people cut themselves, it seems barbaric to some, but it doesn't hurt the same way when they are so upset.