Is the pain worse or not?

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PunkyKat reminded me that the last few times I've given blood that my blood will flow real easily until about the last 1/3 of the pint, then it will slow down to almost nothing. The phlebotomist will then move the needle around to start it flowing again. I end up with a bruise from near my shoulder down to my forearm. It is wickedly disgusting looking for about a week. I assume she is punching holes through my vessel but I never flinch an inch when giving blood or getting a tetanus shot. There is no real pain associated with it. I don't know how much other people feel shots, but the only sensation I get is from the iodine.

I think I'm pretty normal in my pain tolerance. I'm probably more sensitive than normal to certain vague discomforts. I also have trouble getting certain squeamish bodily thoughts out of my head. I might be a hypochondriac of sorts.

I definitely feel pain earlier than other people. It was a real problem for my parents when I was a child, because I felt pain if there was only the slightest damage to my body.

Actually that didn't change, I just got used to the fact that most of the time I will feel some pain somewhere on my body, so I don't care anymore.
I don't mind getting vaccinated, because I know that the little pain I feel will keep me from much more uncomfortable situations, e.g. having the flu.
If I don't see the purpose, though, I really don't understand why I should do something if know it's going to hurt. Why volleyball is such a popular sport will always be a mystery to me.

I am hypersensitive to pain, but I know some aspies who are not. Just like everything in life, it depends on the individual. However, sensory hypersensitivity is a trademark of being an aspie, so I think that aspies in general are more likely to be more sensitive to pain than an NT.

Sometimes I'm sensitive to it but usually I discover injuries after the fact and can't remember how I cut myself or got a bruise.

When you put it that way: (If you are squeamish look away) I once had cut my thumb when playing ball hockey in the gym, didn't notice and the stick was covered in blood, my hand and a trail on the floor showing where I was moving, I only noticed when someone pointed it out.

I don't really feel much pain at all, There have been times where I have been hit by someone from behind or where I couldn't see and I didn't even notice I was hit.

I do tend to get hurt when I start bleeding or get cut though, but I think it is more of a psychological thing, because I have a fear of sharp objects and bleeding and I usually don't feel pain until I notice I have been cut, once I was locked outside my house so I smashed the window on the door in the backyard, went into the house and my sister (who had locked me out) asked me if I was OK, she then pointed out that I had blood dripping down my arm and suddenly the pain kicked in and I had to go to a hospital, but before that I didn't even notice it at all.

I don't feel too sick I'm feeling ill either, I told my mum once I was having stomach pains and felt like I was going to throw up and she didn't even believe me because I was acting completely normal didn't seem to be bothered by it at all, then suddenly I threw up and then she believed me.

I also went out of hospital the day I had my tonsils taken out, they said I would be in pain for a few days after having them removed and that I had to stay there for a few days, but the day I got them removed I woke up after the surgery, got out of the hospital bed and asked to go home, they asked if I was in pain and I told them I wasn't and they had a talk to my mum and they said I could go home.

And when I was much younger (and didn't care much about hygiene and didn't have the fear of bleeding or sharp objects like I do now) I would walk around the streets bare footed because I hated shoes (I still do, I usually walk around in a pair of flip flops instead of bare footed though) and would walk through anything completely oblivious to what I was standing on and would often come home with a ton of cuts on my feet from walking though glass on the sidewalks and I would just wash it off, put some bandages off to stop the bleeding and go do whatever it was I was doing and feel completely fine, I sometimes even got burns on my feet in the summer (The streets can get really hot here in Australia) and I just felt completely fine and continued walking.