#autism pain tolerance

[celiaelise]

Wait what there's autistic pain tolerance???

[cosmiccripple]

question: any other autistic folks have a hard time reacting to pain?

like i stubbed my toe a while back so bad that it immediately started bleeding and ripped the nail off but didn't outwardly react to the pain and the other person present with me was so shocked at my reaction...

idk if this is a chronic pain thing or an autism thing so need your help tyy

[milimeters-morales]

miles hurts his ankle during a fight but doesn’t realize it so by the time he changes back into civilian clothes and going about his day he doesn’t understand why it’s a bit difficult to walk and why the pain just keeps getting worse, so he thinks “i’ll check it out when i get home” but by the time he’s home, his ankle hurts like hell, he’s ready to pass out or bite someone’s head off. obviously rio picks up on this and makes him sit down so she can check it out, & yep you guessed it, shits broken. She’s alarmed but immediately begins taking care of it and cleaning it while Miles is passed out from exhaustion/pain, and then wraps it up and stabilizes it even though she knows it would probably heal just fine without that part. but a mom’s gonna be a mom so it doesn’t matter

[lesbian-honey-lemon]

I think the weirdest thing about my autism is my god tier pain tolerance tbh. I will legitimately not notice I have a sunburn unless I see it in the mirror or someone tells me I have a sunburn, and only then will I feel the pain. I legitimately tore open a toe and had to get 4 stitches and my main concern at the moment was that I got blood on my carpet. I was fully onboard with having my dad superglue the wound shut if it wasn’t in a spot where it would keep reopening (hence, why I had to get stitches instead) The next day I was walking around like no big deal, the day after, I was back in school and doing gym like nothing happened because I am very good at just ignoring pain like it’s not there, if I feel it at all.

Is it dangerous? Of course. Is it cool? Fuck yeah. I’ll take it over having a low pain tolerance any day, I already have other hypersensitivities to worry about.

[wanderingmind867]

I don't think I've made too many vent posts lately. And that's not because I somehow have no issues anymore. Far from it. I've still got dependency issues, I've still got my anger issues and my mood swings, I have to do bloodwork and an allergy test sooner than later, I've got a dentist appointment tomorrow, I'm back in the online social skills class for possibly the last time, etc. I've got lots of problems. But I've discussed a lot of them before and beaten them into the ground, and it's hard to bring them up again. But maybe I'll try to make some more of these posts. Because I do think it's nice to sometimes get stuff off my chest.

[yukurie]

So I’m not sure if this is an autism thing or not but it’s something I’ve noticed that is quite different from the rest of my family (who the rest of which is not autistic)

I have a very high pain tolerance to constant pain, as in I can be developing a migraine for several hours before it reaches the tipping point where my pain tolerance collapses and I finally notice because “Oh fuck everything hurts and the room is spinning” but have no pain tolerance to intense/sudden/throbbing pains such as stubbing a toe or getting cut, basically passive vs active pain tolerance seems to be quite different

[snakesong]

When I was a kid, having a high pain tolerance was a point of pride because it meant I could take a tetherball to the face and barely react.

Now, it's more of an inconvenience. My tendinitis has returned with a vengeance because I repeatedly don't notice when I'm over-straining my wrists. The damage compiles over the course of the day, until it hurts to even turn the doorknob when I'm coming home at night.

I guess this is just the price I pay for being practically immune to bullet ant venom (true story).

[biollyante]

if you put on a mask to be loved, they will love the mask, not you

if you put on a mask to be loved, the mask will drain you

if you put on a mask to be loved, the mask will ingrain itself into your identity forever, becoming part of you

if you don't put on a mask to be loved, would nobody love you?

[dragongirlbunny]

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[homo-beehive]

hot-ish take

many disabilities would still be disabilities in a non-ableist society—especially physical disabilities.

our chronic pain would still be an issue if it were properly accommodated, because we are still in pain. even if we have support, that support can only go so far. a cane will not alleviate all of our pain, it just helps to make it less of an issue.

we, being autistic and medium support needs, would still have restrictive food preferences and low pain tolerance in a non-ableist society. those are debilitating; our safe foods are unhealthy and worsen our physical pain, and we cannot avoid injury.

we are likely narcoleptic as well, and this means that we miss a lot. in class, in work, literally everywhere. sleep attacks and fainting episodes are unavoidable and completely random for us. this hinders our learning, our ability to get places, everything. whether or not society is ableist doesn’t change that. sometimes, we will have a sleep attack on the bus and miss our stop. that disabled us in and of itself.

we also have DID, and our experience of it includes painful switches, frequent blackout amnesia, and frequent splitting. this is terrifying, frustrating, and debilitating regardless of the situation. i love and care for my alters, but i do not love having DID because it stops me from getting so much done.

even in a non-ableist, perfect society, we would be disabled.

[dorianbrightmusic]

why the frick does leg waxing hurt so much. i don’t think it’s meant to feel like the muscles are actually getting ripped out

[lilqu33rboi]

yk how some ppl have high pain tolerance or low pain tolerance? yeah well i have low pain tolerance but everyone around me thinks i have a high pain tolerance because i forced myself to mask it since i was a kid because being visibly in pain is embarrassing

(pls tell me i'm not the only one)

[dailydragoncookies]

todays dragon cookie is: leans on expensive car (also i'm back, sorta!)

[lulupoopypantsvonsqueaks]

Where’s that do not see meme

Im in need of it for the denial I’ve been in for the last decade about probably having fibromyalgia 😂

[wanderingmind867]

I always bite my nails, yet I have a horrible pain tolerance. I picked up the habit of biting from my dad and my paternal grandfather. But because of my low pain tolerance, I usually have many, many bandages on. For example: today I have three bandages on my fingers. This makes it a little hard to type sometimes, but it stops me from biting or thinking about the pain, so i always gravitate towards using bandages.

[pageturner001]

Someone: Wow you have such a great pain tolerance, it is worrying

Me: I am really a baby with pain

Someone: But you barely mention when you are in pain

Me: I guess. By the way, it is way too loud in here, can you turn down your music

Someone: CaN't YoU jUsT iGnOrE iT???