#autism pain tolerance

[celiaelise]

Wait what there's autistic pain tolerance???

[sam-not-sammie]

During my last therapy session, I was getting into how much being disabled has affected my mental health, and how at least soon-ish i’ll be getting a surgery that might lead to a diagnosis and treatment plan, and when I told her about the specific conditions they’re looking for, her whole face fell in empathy and sympathy for me.

She began to tell me that considering how painful those conditions were, she totally understands how stressed I’ve been.

(I then had to tell her that the surgery I’m getting won’t even address the issues at the top of my priority list, but it was nice to finally be able to get some treatment/options after about 10 years of trying to figure this out.)

It caught her so off guard, and i just kinda laughed because yeah being chronically ill and disabled is just like that!

[enbyorge]

Just confused the life out of two dentists by having the exact level of pain tolerance we already told them I've always had :)

Isn't it cool when people know how they will respond to their own pain as literal adults :)

They kept asking over and over again if I was sure it didn't hurt and I just had to sit there like yeah? It feels very cold? Which is kinda odd when I know it's probably not actually cold, but I don't need a shot of that fancy anesthesia because it doesn't hurt. At all, really.

Genetically speaking, based on family history, the anesthesia would probably have not affected me much, if at all, so why bother wasting it and our time?

[wanderingmind867]

I always bite my nails, yet I also have a ridiculously low pain tolerance. So my fingers are almost always bandaged up, at least to some extent. I currently have bandages on one of my thumbs and one of my pinkies. And do you know how hard it is to make posts or even just type into google with a bandaged thumb? It's not the easiest thing to do, I'll say that much. And I feel like I might need one more bandage before the night is over. So that might make it even harder to make posts tomorrow. But i'll try to at least finish writing two more posts in my drafts later today or tomorrow. Even if my fingers are sore from being bitten at.

[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

[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

[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.

[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).

[dragongirlbunny]

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[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!)

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

I know it's necessary to get good images but ultrasound techs really do press that probe into your skin like they're trying to crush your organs. Every time I get an ultrasound for something I say a silent prayer for the pregnant people who have to get an ultrasound on their stomach with a full bladder. The one I got today was for pain in my liver/gallbladder area and I still have to breathe shallow like 2 hours later because it hurts to take deep breaths.

[inkats]

$5000 for some guy w a degree to tell me i have autism? why is he special everyone already tells me that this boy i have a crush on clocked me in a week i dont need u to tell me what ive been knowing?

[wanderingmind867]

I bite my nails a lot, and it always brings me pain. But since I have a low pain tolerance, I get really agitated and require frequent bandages. Sometimes half the fingers on my hands will be bandages up. It can be a real mess. Because my dad bites his nails, but he doesn't use 50 million bandages like I do. I can't stop biting, but I can't cope with my self inflicted pain. So I sometimes wish I could just wear gloves full time, or something. That's like the only way i seem to stop biting, and yet it's impossible to type or do anything with gloves on. So it feels like i'm out of luck, and my nails will always hurt and need bandaging. sigh...