[Fleury29]

I have an odd thing with pain, and, the best way I know how to describe it is that, I do not feel pain when I should most of the time. Sometimes I do feel it, but it doesn't feel like pain, more like a really bad itch, or a washed out version of what I think pain should feel like almost like I am disconnected from the event. Sometimes I feel it but only awhile after I should. I've often wondered what causes something like this?

[CantExplain]

I haven't heard that a high pain threshold is a sign of Aspergers...

[-jimi-]

It's not too unusual actually.

[rosska]

Yeah, as jimi said, it's actually a pretty common thing. Most people don't realise that AS is more than just a social disorder.

There is a great little article here about it. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...body-awareness

Like the guy who wrote the article, I had appendicitis as a teen. By the time I told anybody I was in pain, it had already ruptured and formed abscesses along my bowl. I ended up having to get a section of my bowl removed. According to the surgeon, if I'd waited even another day I wouldn't have made it through surgery, but to me the pain only seemed worth complaining about after several days.

[healingme4me]

I wonder if it's part of AS, myself. Still in limbo, with middle son. Ever seen a kid break an arm and not cry?

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[rosska]

Originally Posted by healingme4me

I wonder if it's part of AS, myself. Still in limbo, with middle son. Ever seen a kid break an arm and not cry?

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I broke my ankle and walked on it for over a week before seeking medical help. I thought I had just sprained it because I really didn't think it felt that bad.

[-jimi-]

For me it's two things. Some kind of pain I simply cannot recognize. I know something is wrong but I don't see it as pain until I understand I should feel pain. Other types of pain I feel more normally, it sort of depends.

The other aspect is I have never used emotion to communicate pain. I have never cried for attention as a child, I only cried if it hurt. I know that even in the cases I actually feel severe pain people don't believe me because I forget to cry and whine. Also it's a bit of vicious circle because the times I expressed pain people thought I exaggerated so I learned to tone it down even more.

[rosska]

Haha yeah I know what you mean. Though I sometimes seem to have sub standard pain responses, I can go the other way with some things. I guess it's all part of the sensory stimuli package. Like sometimes I can hear fine, but then other times every noise is so loud I feel like my brain is about to explode, and sometimes things seem so quiet I'm not even sure if I'm hearing them at all. All of that is connected through the nervous system, so it makes sense that if one of them fluctuates, they all could.

[Fleury29]

Thanks, I'd never known anyone else like me, so I didn't know if it was common or not. Edit: I've had a chance to read that article, and it sums up my experience nicely.