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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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  • Actually, given my medical phobias this issue worries me a great deal...

    My pain seems to swing between extremes. After my c-section the midwives couldn't believe I didn't want pain killers. The same after tooth extraction; my husband was given some heavy duty ones to give me, I was in a MH crisis over it, but no pain.

    AND YET, the smallest things can leave me reeling in an agony out of all proportion to the situation. They had to abandon cleaning my teeth last week due to sensitivity pain. My mother can remember me screaming as a kid over small hurts.

    More than once doctors have asked me to describe pain. I describe it, but it never seems to be the answer that want and just keep asking 'what sort of pain?'.

    Not being able to interpret pain, I can is potentially serious. I could either be dismissed as being hystriconic, or a serious issue could be missed, because I'm either feeling too much or too little pain.

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  • Actually, given my medical phobias this issue worries me a great deal...

    My pain seems to swing between extremes. After my c-section the midwives couldn't believe I didn't want pain killers. The same after tooth extraction; my husband was given some heavy duty ones to give me, I was in a MH crisis over it, but no pain.

    AND YET, the smallest things can leave me reeling in an agony out of all proportion to the situation. They had to abandon cleaning my teeth last week due to sensitivity pain. My mother can remember me screaming as a kid over small hurts.

    More than once doctors have asked me to describe pain. I describe it, but it never seems to be the answer that want and just keep asking 'what sort of pain?'.

    Not being able to interpret pain, I can is potentially serious. I could either be dismissed as being hystriconic, or a serious issue could be missed, because I'm either feeling too much or too little pain.

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