freakin annoying lil sister-never says anything straight out

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my eleven yr old sis can never just get to the point. for example if her braces hurt she cant just ever say that the hurt, she has to make a big production of it!! !(btw braces DONT HURT THAT MUCH!!) she ha to whimper and whine in a pathetic attempt to get someone to ask whats wrong (not me though she knows that i probably couldnt care less.) is this an NT thing? i dont get it.

Braces could hurt for her. Dental work can be very different between two people.

Case in point:

I got my wisdom teeth out, I moved furniture the next day.

My friend was sick for several days.

I don't have braces but while a few people I knew didn't bother getting them much some had to take pain meds and couldn't eat anything they had to chew for up to two weeks.
About the point you're making - my parents never seem to just get to the point, explain everything multiple times (even if it's just a request to bring something to the post office or reminding my borther or I to emty the dishwasher) and doen't tell people that he's, for example, having a headache but keeps 'whining' about everything else around him until someone asks that is willing to listen to a ten-minutes-long headache discription.
I'm not sure if it's an NT thing or not. I usually 'suffer in silence', so to say, and the more I hurt the less I say. It just seems to be very different from person to person - I know quiete a few NTs who just cope with physical pain and go on doing their job or hobby even if they're sick and others seem to take as little as a sleepless night as an excuse to rant about how bad they feel until one would get the impression that they broke their neck or something. -.-