Reactions to Pain

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I always say ouch nonetheless. Even if it doesn't hurt or not much, I still say it. Sometimes I breath hard and take deep breaths as if I am in labor or just standing still when I hit a funny spot on my bone. I have even felt like I was knocked out or something while I am not even unconscious. I get hit and I am walking thinking about the pain not really thinking. I remember I got hit in the head with a softball while I was up bat and I heard a sound and I started to walk to first base and then I hear, "leave the bat here" from the umpire. I toss the bat back to home plate and go to first base and the pitches asks if I am okay and by the time I got to third base, the pain is gone.

But yet when I got hit in the leg with a softball, I cried and cried and I had this huge bruise on me for a month. Then another time I was hit in the face with the ball when my team mate threw it to me and I had a bruise below my eye for maybe a week. I also cried when that happened.

But yet when I fell on my elbow in 2007, it felt very funny and it hurt when I move it. But the pain got worse and worse and then I was crying so mom told me to go into ER. Turns out my joint was broken but I had no cast. But I still managed to shower and get dressed and moved my arm a little since it was required. I even used the computer with both hands.

I remember another time I got a very bad cold so it hurt to keep my eyes open and the light was bothering me. I also had a very bad headache. I had to go home and I slept and the next day I had to call in sick and I slept all day. I felt fine lying down but when I be sitting up or standing, my head would hurt again and my eyes. Worst cold I ever had.

But as a child I used to cry more often to pain and always cried when I fell down. But I guess I got so used to it it didn't hurt at much by the time I was a pre teen.

As a kid, I enjoyed putting a piece of Easter grass between my teeth and rub it in my gums treating it like it's dental floss to enjoy the pain. My gums would bleed and I enjoyed it. I don't do it anymore because I think it's not good for my mouth.

pain is just a way of relaying impact.
hit something->"pain"->does it still work?->ignore

i just keep on using whatever has been hurt, i mean, a black spot or something isn't anything to worry about, ignore and keep going.
the only pain i react to is that of loud noise and bright light; i get away from those asap.

Running pain I usually just fall down to the ground and just lie there for a moment.

But, I had a 20 mile run that was reaaaallly painful, so I sorta yelled from it for a minute.

When I have a small annoyance I just say freak, and mumble underneath my breath.

When it is pain I bring on myself, then I usually enjoy it (but I rarely do that, and it is usually started unintentionally, crap, thinking about it makes it irresistible).

If I have sore muscles, I say ow a lot.

Oh, if I have a muscle that starts hurting when I am running, and I need to finish, I just repeats: ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow,

Finally, with stomach aches, I rumble sorta. If that makes any sense?

Depends on the type of pain and what's causing it.

I find the "bone pain" such as a bruise doesn't hurt as much as something like a cut. I have never broken a bone, so I don't know about that.

If I am physically hurt, I don't want sympathy and don't like talking about the injury at all. I don't like it when people say "Aw, I'm sorry", I know they are being nice, I just don't like it. I will often act like the pain isn't as bad as it is. I have a high pain threshold, so it's not all that hard sometimes.

I do enjoy my hair being pulled (not in a sexual way) lightly and don't actually mind it that much when someone pulls it hard.

I tend to get embarrassed when I am in physical pain, and don't tend to go around complaining. Of course, I would tell someone if it was a concern, but for mild pain? No. I usually resume my everyday activities.

Yes, completely agree.

I'm just the opposite. Pain on the skin is overwhelming, especially when something sharp breaks the skin. Getting a blood test is excruciatingly painful. I won't say that pain that comes from the inside doesn't bother me, but it's much more manageable, even when it's for an extended time. (I was bedridden for two months with a herniated disk and not even Vicodin made the pain go away. It was awful but not nearly as bad as getting a blood test.)

I also find that emotional pain is very hard to tolerate, and it lasts much longer, sometimes for years.

I was told by a specialist that Aspies tend to be either undersensitive to pain or oversensitive.

I`m scared of pain! I HATE pain! I cry at the doctors sometimes not all the time, and I scream and cry when I have ear infections! There`s a lot of things I can`t handle! My brother use to flick me and I use to complain and get really angry and now I think he stopped for the most part!

I used to get HORRIFYING ear infections....can I ask, do you get pain in your ears on airplane rides?

Last edited by chrissyrun on 16 Jul 2011, 11:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am not good with pain at all!

Actually I only flew once and surprisingly my ears were fine. But I had a hole in my eardrum at the time and now that it`s fixed I feel a lot of pressure on the ground so I can`t imagine what my next airplane ride is gonna be like (whenever that will be) and my other ear use to be fine but now it has a lot of pressure in it too!

If you do want to be careful about it (because I know the pain of a horrible airplane ride, and I know hoe to fix it)....go to the drug store and get theses things called "earplanes"...they are great for pain.

Thank u! I`ll check into that next time I fly

Speaking of pain, I got stung by a scorpion on my leg and thought it was a bug bite last night. Then it crawled in my shirt and stung my back a few times.....it was painful, but I just was saying ow for a few minutes, and then I ignored the pain through music.

In most cases, I can "shut it off". In other words, I feel it, but I disconnect from it so that it's not hurting me. I think it's called Biofeedback. There are a few instances where I cannot do that, including tooth aches and headaches. But broken bones, "painful" injections, surgeries, etc., aren't an issue. I have a master fear of general anesthetic and of "twilight" sedation, and I refuse to have it. So when I needed a minor abdominal surgery about 15 years ago, I had a big argument with the surgeon over not giving me any general anesthetic.. I wanted to be fully awake and compus-mentus. He reluctantly agreed after I agreed to let them put an IV in, and have the anesthetic ready in case I would change my mind when they started cutting. I didn't change my mind, and it went 100% fine. He did use local anesthetic where he made cuts, and in fact there really wasn't any pain to ignore... Just pulling & pushing and weird pressure. The surgeon had been performing that procedure for 30 years on 100s and 100s of patients, and I was his first one awake.

I also am into bodypiercing, and I did all of my own; both nipples, both ears, and another one not to be disclosed in the all-ages forums.

Charles

I have never felt an ear infection. I just knew because they made me nauseous when I got them as a young kid. They didn't hurt.

needles hurt like hell. somebody needs to invent a replacement for such. somebody needs to invent a way to turn pain off like a light switch, or at least to turn the pain knob from "11" down to 2 or so.