Undersensitive instead of oversensitive?

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How common is it for aspies to be undersensitive instead of oversensitive? I don't typically get overstimulated (except when I have to process a large volume of information). I'm not especially light sensitive or touch sensitive. I have decent hearing but sometimes have trouble picking out individual sounds, especially speech. I tend to like music that's loud and very complicated/difficult to process. I love complex visuals. I enjoy being touched (except when I'm not expecting it) but mainly by my wife. I love super-intense massages.

Am I an exception or is this something that happens to some aspies?

You sound similar to my Aspie brother, he is undersensitive to most things, especially to heat, which can be quite dangerous because he is prone to flash burns by stove, heaters, etc, because when he accidentaly touches them he does not automatically pull himself back.....

I think the sound part is fairly common, from what I've heard we don't really have 'super hearing' or something. But in reality we hear everything around us and can't really focus on just one.
And I also have a theory that lots of aspies have a very high pain threshold, which could make some things seem less sensitive. (And at times it may also seem like our pain threshold is very low, when that's usually the mental side (E.G. I've cut my leg open to need a ton of stitches and the only bad part was when I a doctor to put a needle into it...))

Mind you that all of that is just my theory that is mostly based on generalisations of aspies I know, which is a very low amount considering how many there are.

Lol that sounds like me

I got a shrapnel wound when part of a bullet ricocheted off a rock and hit me in the arm. It felt like a small pinch. The most painful part wasn't when they were digging the metal out, it was the antibiotic shot in my a**!