[LouR]

When I eventually got a tattoo it didn't hurt, it was done on my buffalo hump at the base of my neck it didn't hurt. My friends who were with me as support because I was scared and I slept through it.

I remember at 20 yrs old putting a darning needle through my nostril because I wanted a nose piercing and getting it stuck in the inner stretchy part of my nare and thinking get through I ended up getting a thimble so there was a hard object so the needle wouldn't pierce my septum and it didn't hurt.

I remember at 21 the piercing gun getting stuck and my right ear being partially pierced instead of getting out of the chair I said to her to pull it out and re-pierce it again and the pharmacist assistant looking at me in horror and saying are you sure...

What made me share this is that people thought I was strange because I subjected myself to these things and wasn't in pain and the fact that I flipped on the TV and there was a documentary on people who challenge societies view of what is normal and there was a woman having a scarification procedure on her right breast and was talking to the interviewer with not an ounce of pain in her voice or a whince on her face made me wonder if she was dissociating or something

Have any of you guys noticed this in your life or can't recall having these procedures performed but have the finalised result on you somewhere?

[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

Ive gotten tattooed 6 times, two ear piercings in each ear, tongue piercing and belly button piercing. All of them hurt me to a degree, some way more than others.

But i have been in extreme pain (according to those that were there) but came out of the blackout feeling normal. I have heard sone DD patients can dissociate pain but not me as much. When its too much pain i typically black out and personally dont feel pain, but the part thats out does feel pain.

I have a part whose sole purpose is to block out emotional pain, like when my grandmother who was my rock during many trauma events, when she had a bunch of massive strokes and became a vegitable, my part took over for a few days and i lingered in the middle (what t calls co concious) where i could see and hear what was going on but never felt any of it and never was in control of the body. Any time i get too emotionally hurt, that part takes over. I guess its the same as when im physically being hurt a part takes over. I did experience much the same with one of my tattooes but the body did feel pain but just not me, whoever was out took the pain, i remmembered seeing the body in pain and hearing groans and ows in the distance but not the pain per se.

But its different for everyone

Our tattoos didnt hurt, neither did having wisdom teeth removed with no anasthetic. As children we often stuck needles into our hands and fingers. Cutting/ SI feels good not painful.