Mystery Injuries

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I found a divet taken out of my right index finger (to the left of the nail). I mean it's like a tiny (somewhere in the neighborhood of 1mm) gunsight. I do not remember where or how this could have happened.

The other day I found claw marks on my left breast. I do know where this came from - holding my cats, but they typically do not scratch me. So I am trying to remember an occasion when I was holding one and he became upset and agitated, and I can't.

I often find scratches and bruises that I don't recall getting. This happens often enough I used to joke about "abduction marks."

I also pull muscles in my legs, although I don't remember how or when.

In all these cases, I don't feel the pain when it happens, so it doesn't stick in my mind.

The only injuries I remember getting in the past few months are: Fidgeting with a Venus razor and it slipping and slicing one of my fingers (nothing serious, shallow cuts, lots of blood); a burn from picking up a hot spoon to drop it in the cool dishwater, but it was very minor and the pain was gone in a few hours.

Anyway, that stupid finger divot now stings just enough to be a distraction.

I occasionally find unexpected injuries to my hands and arms. I have a very low pain threshold, so I have no idea how I got them without noticing it. I cannot zone out enough to block pain; I have tried. I have a really good memory for that sort of thing. So it is quite perplexing when it happens.

Cut fingers and bruised legs and I rarely know how I got them!

Do you possibly have a sleep disorder? Sleep walking might explain them.

I am pretty sure I don't sleepwalk! But that's an interesting idea.

well my body was sore today, but the last thing I remember doing was playing walleyball in gym(volleyball, exept your isolated in a box and everyone violently punches the ball so it bounces around the box and hits someone in the head at least 4 times a day) I...hope bouncing a ball did not cause this

I sometimes find mystery cuts on myself, and sometimes I'll feel like I've pulled a muscle when I haven't done anything to do so.

I use to sleep walk when I was a kid, I thought I had stopped, perhaps I was wrong.

I have a bunch of bruises on my legs. I have no idea show they got there.

Suggest you make sure you have good sensation in your extremities. Sometimes poor blood flow can cause numbness so that people don't recognize when they've been hurt, and that's a medical problem that has to be checked up on.

You can google "poor circulation diabetes" and get some results that tell you what poor circulation looks and feels like. The main signs I saw were numbness/tingling, discolored skin, slow healing of wounds, cold skin, and not being aware of injuries. (The "diabetes" is there because the poor circulation is very common in diabetics and helps you narrow down the search.)

This is kind of a just-in-case thing. Since you're autistic, the far more likely explanation is that you simply don't register sensory input as readily as NTs, including pain when you're injured; so you just discover the injury later, having forgotten all about it because your brain mistakenly rejected the initial pain as irrelevant. This is what happens to me; I have no other signs of poor circulation.

But it's probably a good idea to check, just in case. Diabetics with poor circulation are urged to check their feet for injuries daily in order to treat injuries before infection occurs.

Thanks for the advice!

I have been worried about diabetes off and on, but I just got bloodwork done and apparently (I'll know for sure today, but what I heard over the phone sounded promising) my blood sugar is normal. Obviously this does not mean my circulation is, so that'll get checked out anyway, especially due to "idiopathic edema."

Mostly, I think it's the not registering sensory input. I know I'm not as sensitive to pain as other people. I am kind of amazed at how many minor injuries I can manage to collect without realizing.

It's a good point and I had wondered - I saw how my father collected all sorts of odd bruises because of his poor circulation through age, but I was checked for blood sugar levels and any circulatory silliness a while back and everything's Ok.

This happens to both aspies and NTs. I have discovered bruises and scratches while in the shower many nof times. I had a co-worker who somehow popped his middle finger out of the socket while he was asleep. He went to put on his pants then he relized his finger was messed up. I believe most of the mystery injuries happen due to moving around in your sleep.

Some, yeah, in one's sleep I can see. But I didn't get cat scratches or divots taken out of my finger in my sleep.

And yeah, I am sure NTs get it too. I just got annoyed because my finger started to sting (is stinging right now). Not excessively painful, just distracting.