Did you cry when you hurt yourself as a child?

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I didn't cuss when I hurt myself as an adolescent but I still grew out of crying at pain at age 10. I don't think it's just about learning cuss words, it's more to do with maturing. I remember one day when I was 12 I thought to myself, "I haven't cried at pain for a couple of years now." And I felt confused by it. I suppose after a certain age you just become old enough to know how to deal with pain without an adult.

I started cussing when I was in 4th grade. Cuss words have been my go to response to pain since then. I find that cussing when I hurt myself relieves the pain a little bit.

I somewhat started using cuss words (the big ones) when I was 10-11, and it increased from I was about 14.

I seldom cuss when I hurt myself though. It's mostly when I'm angry.

The scientific study of it has resulted in an Ig Nobel prize ("science that makes you laugh, then think")...
Wikipedia - the Hypoalgesic effect of swearing.

I don't remember for sure whether I cried from pain as a child. However, I do remember crying from sadness or remorse, and don't have any memory of crying from the painful childhood accidents that I remember. My Mum said at my autism assessment that I never cried to be fed etc. as an infant, so it may well be that my impression is correct. Later in childhood, my father was very strict about the idea that boys shouldn't cry, and I still feel the urge very strongly to fight the tears as an adult. I can remember being very perplexed by one of my Dad's common quips; "If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about." - huh?

I hated swearing even as a teenager. I hated the way other teens would curse all the time or give give each other the finger. I found it disgusting and I still do. I know how it is, they think doing that makes them look tough or like an adult, but it really just makes them even more immature.

Nowadays if I feel really bad pain from say, accidentally smashing my toe against a table leg, I just scream or yell.

When I hurt myself as a little kid I used to cry and yell "Mummy!!" - like a typical little kid.

As an adult when I hurt myself I usually say "ow!" or "ouch!"

I usually swear if I've forgotten to do something, like "oh s**t, I forgot to buy milk" or something.

I didn't cry too often---but when I did, people would say "I'll give you something to cry about."

Boys didn't cry after the age of about 5 during my childhood----or they would risk being teased unmercifully.

I would cry when I got hurt, but I seemed to have a much higher pain tolerance than other kids my age.

When I was around 9, I crashed my bike and didn’t even realize I hurt my leg until I looked down and felt blood trickling into my sock. My son is like that, too.

My nephew with ASD cries over every little boo boo.

I think it’s just that everyone experiences pain differently.

That's usually my response to pain now too, has been since my teens.

heh, at times when I hear kids cry, I think or mumble to myself "shut up or I'll give you something to cry about" because they annoy me. Of course I'd never actually do anything or even say it to them. It's just a way to get my annoyance out of my system. I only mumble it if I'm at home and hear kids in the daycare nearby or neighbor kids, never if anyone can hear it.
I'm surprised someone actually said it to you! I hope it was just words.

I wasn't told that if I hurt myself but I was told that if I was having a tantrum.

No, I hit my head once incredibly hard against a wall when I was 4 and did not react at all. 4 weeks later my school reported I was acting strange and at the hospital they made a scan and I had a severely neglected concussion which caused me memory loss and ever since that I always had severe unexplainable headache problems. I have a poker-face and am unreadable many psychiatrists and professors have told me which often leads to people not believing I am in pain or have stress, anxiety. Sucks!

I hardly ever cried when I was a kid, at least in front of people other than my parents and brother. I refused to cry at school, or in front of strangers. And I also really avoided crying in front of my friends and their parents. I remember when I had to go to the doctor and get shots before I started kindergarten. I was terrified, and one shot that I had to get in my leg REALLY hurt, but even then, I remember I just fought the urge to let any tears come out and instead clenched my teeth together and almost popped my eyes out of my head. I can't explain why I was like this...again, I didn't feel as weird about crying in front of my family (and it's not like my parents scolded me when I cried or taught me that it's bad to cry), but I just felt really weird about crying in front of other people and was too embarrassed/ashamed to do it.

I dom’t Remember Crying when falling over from age 4 onwards. If memory serves me correctly. I used to run into the other children in my class and knock them on the floor. They’d be crying and I would be on the floor thinking why are they crying?

I have read about the studies on cuss words on pain. I like knowing that I'm not the only one who feels that way about cussing and pain. When I was in the hospital last year, I screamed the F word at the top of my lungs when they put an IV in my hand. That's how bad it hurts to have an IV in my hand. Having a needle in my arm for donating blood doesn't bother me at all.

Some of my high school teachers thought I was hard to read too. They said I had a poker face. They couldn't tell if I understood the lesson unless they walked over to my desk and looked at my work. I won a lot of card games in my social skills class because nobody could read my face.