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Just a Little Observation - Reaction to Pain

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I had to get a printer from my aunties garage as our one has stopped working, it was in an awkward position and as I adjusted my self to move I lost grip and it fell on my finger and slammed against the edge of what it was sitting on. Anyway it REALLY hurt I haven't hurt my self that bad in a while but I didn't have an overt reaction like how I've seen everyone else in my life react to things when they hurt themselves. They will screech/scream or swear or cry.

It it got me thinking that when ever I've hurt my self I very very rarely react in that way even though it can be very very painful. I'm wondering if that's an autistic thing or not? I don't really have anyone to ask or compare to as I'm the only autistic person I know.

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  • I would say I'm weird that way.  I shout at the *anticipation* of pain, but I don't really feel it that bad.  It's like I've always been expected to shout out, so I always do, even when it's nothing.  I'd say I have a reasonably high pain tolerance but that it takes 3 times more local anaesthetic on me than normal, my cold tolerance is through the roof and I have basically no heat tolerance.  However, correlation does not equal causation and all that could be simply because I am from The North, or just random genetics or epigenetics.

    High pain tolerance is listed as a possible symptom in various places but it's just far too subjective and subject to too many confounding factors to be a provable theory.

  • in reply to Nezumi

    Yeah I think a big part of pain tolerance is how you're brought up and your environment my house for my whole life has always been hot my mum leaves the heating on the time my heat tolerance is high but I cannot stand the cold at all.

    But I thought that the reaction to pain could differ between NT and ND because of how are brains our different from NT's but as you said it would be hard to measure because pain is subjective and you could do the same thing to two people and one might be really hurt and the other not so much

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  • in reply to Nezumi

    Yeah I think a big part of pain tolerance is how you're brought up and your environment my house for my whole life has always been hot my mum leaves the heating on the time my heat tolerance is high but I cannot stand the cold at all.

    But I thought that the reaction to pain could differ between NT and ND because of how are brains our different from NT's but as you said it would be hard to measure because pain is subjective and you could do the same thing to two people and one might be really hurt and the other not so much

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