Are you scared of needles?

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Nope, I love tattoos. I was quite ill for over two years and during that time I got so used to endless needles that it ceased to bother me at all. Mostly now it just bothers the pathology collectors, because I watch it go in and don't move. "You looked at it! Don't look at it! Nobody looks at it!"

No, I have to be poked by needles far too often now to afford to be scared of them.

But it's a common fear among NTs.

No.

However, ever since I was forced to avoid having a Meningitis injection when I was 10 because I was told it ''might make me severely Autistic'' I have been scared s**t of having injections (except for blood tests or anesthetic).

A little bit. I can handle it, but I will be a little scared beforehand.

I am irrationally afraid of needles. I know it's irrational, but I still am. I've even been on anxiety meds while getting blood drawn and was still panicky, though altogether it helped quite a bit. It helps me a little to sit hugging my knees with my free arm. The worst shot I've gotten was one to numb part of my back. Someone tried to hold me down so I wouldn't get up, if they had let me stand up for a second and take a deep breath or something it would've been a lot easier. Instead I freaked out at being touched, and worse, held down, and the impending shot I wasn't ready for. I'll just say that at the end of the ordeal, I was a very embarrassed 18 year old, who was very aware she had just acted like a child. Though I am sure if the events were to reoccur I'd end up doing the same thing again...

I have blood-injury needle phobia which causes a vasovagal syncope sometimes. I need to lay down when I have my blood taken or I pass out about 1 out of every 3 times. I can't stand anything describing injury or surgery to eyeballs. I remember the teacher talking about eyeball surgery in one class, I was feeling sick, I excused myself, almost made it to the fountain where I collapsed on the floor.

Fake blood doesn't seem to bother me like that in a tv show or action movie but real blood does. I also can't stand to watch surgeries of any kind really. For some reason, IM needles like vaccines don't bother me but the sensation of having a needle stuck into my veins drawing blood is awful for me. I have had to have 4 surgeries so far in life not including dental, but the it wasn't the surgery itself that scared me, it was when I had to have an IV stuck in my hand or arm that gave me panic attacks.

For dental surgery I used to be knocked out with laughing gas, but my dentist decided to just stop using laughing gas for surgeries, and didn't inform me of the change. I was freaking out the whole time they were ramming needles into my gums.

Like most kids I was very afraid f needles even though, or because, I had to get them quite often because I must have had tubes put in my ears every month and had to get blood work done before that. Of course I still don't like needles but I'm not as afraid of them now. Depends on the type of shot. A flu shot is no more painful than a mosquito bite, a blood test feels more like one of those big horseflies, but when I was a teenager I had to get ear surgery and it felt like they jammed the IV right up my arm and it hurt so bad the next time I needed surgery I was terrified.

I don't know how I'd handle donating blood. Of course I'd do it if a family member needed one and I was a match. But the guilt-tripping of those PSAS... somebody I don't even know might have died because they needed a type that was mine and they didn't have it, so it's like I murdered them. Ugh.

Nope. Even the one who's handling the needle is incompetent, I don't feel a slight panic, only impatience or anticipation.

Even as a child, I only react to discomfort or pain, but not at the needle itself.

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No, I'm not scared of needles. In fact, when I was a very young child, I would ask the doctors if they would take my blood instead of checking my blood pressure because I found having my blood pressure tested much more painful. I guess I didn't realize that the two aren't related.

I prefer to have my blood drawn from my hands because the veins there are easy to see and stick, unlike the veins in my inner arms which tend to roll. I always ask, but many phlebotomists try my arms first anyway. Not sure why, since it's easier and quicker to go straight to my hand, and I feel the stick hurts less that way, too. I hate it when someone insists on trying my arm, misses the vein and then goes digging around for it -- that is the only part that bothers me, something about the sensation of it sometimes makes me feel a bit queasy. Other than that, no issues.

Yes, but I think it's lessening. I once had a small panic attack giving blood, which thankfully never happened again.

I used to, at least a long time ago, really only in hospitals trips. I pretty much used to refuse, or almost panicked during blood tests, even to the point that sometimes, i've had to be held down just to get the procedure going. I guess i was simply squimish at the thought of having a needle through my arm. (which was silly to think, being that i've been injecting myself with a syringe pretty everyday of my life due to my diabetes )

Now days, it's less of a iffy to me tbh, even at all. I guess some mannerisms just change as time goes by, doesn't it?

I don't like em cuz they hurt, sometimes a lot more than others. I have small rolling veins so getting my blood drawn is a hassle which is usually probably more painful for me than the average person. My shots are sometimes in the mussel which leave it sore for a couple days after.