Did you cry when you hurt yourself as a child?

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I heard that some children with autism don't cry when they fall over or hurt in some other way. I'm not sure how common that is among autistic children. Personally I cried whenever I hurt myself and I grew out of it at around age 10.

But did anyone here NOT cry when you hurt as a child? Also does anyone's parents remember if you cried when having shots when you were a baby?

Just curious.

I didn't cry unless I hurt myself really bad. Cuts and scrapes didn't bother me. Getting socked in the stomach playing football hurt like hell so I cried. I didn't cry when I ripped my ear in sixth grade. I didn't cry when I sliced my finger on my first day of seventh grade. I think I did cry when I stubbed my toe in first grade. I was the kind of kid that would fall down and get right back up and keep playing. Mom said that I was a pretty chill baby for the most part. I remember always wanting Dad right next to me when I got shots.

I tried to be as "brave" as possible. I didn't want to cry in front of the other kids. I didn't want to be called a "crybaby."

I cried when I got hurt. Pretty much like every other kid.

I stopped crying in response to pain about the same time I learned to use profanity( like early Junior High,late elementary school).

I was once hit with a belt when I was 6. It was for saying "damn."

My aspie son has never cried when he got hurt, even with some quite nasty cuts.
I'm not sure if it's hyposensitivity (he doesn't seem to have much awareness of his body) or if he just never realised that crying was something one does in that situation

I always cried when I hurt myself and wanted an adult to fix it. They would put water over my owie and put bandages on it and I would be back to playing again.

I also hated having shots, they always hurt. I am sure I cried as a baby too.

I quit crying as I got older when I got more used to the pain and I started to take care of it myself.

According to both my and my mom's memories, it varied. It depended on how badly I hurt myself and sometimes on if any adult was nearby to pity me and pay me attention (IOW, not so much hurt (if at all) as wanting attention). I didn't normally cry if it wasn't painful.

That was very important to me in elementary school, although I wasn't going for 'brave' but 'tough'. I was naturally one of those kids that were less likely to cry. I never once cried at school in elementary school (and very seldom elsewhere), and I was proud of that. I also didn't think the cuts, bruises and scrapes I got were anything to cry about.
Most of the other kids definitely cried more than I did! To be honest, I did sometimes think of them as cry babies. Like for example when we were on a field trip in 3rd grade and a boy stumbled and scraped his knee and cried his eyes out over it, I thought he was being a cry baby. We were 9 years old, and to me, that was childish.

Starting at ca 4 or 5 and upwards I also didn't wanna be seen as a scaredy-cat.


According to my mother, I did cry during my first shots. She wasn't sure when it stopped, but I certainly didn't after I started school. At that point I was just interested and found it exciting and wanted to watch and pay attention.


Yeah, if I was into a game or otherwise distracted, I just wanted to continue having fun.

I'd usually make growling, moaning, whatever noises rather than cry.

No, not really. I once accidentally slashed my wrist open. I pressed my hand over the wound and calmly walked home to tell my parents. My Dad didn't believe me and thought I had a tiny, little cut or something. When I took my hand off, the jet of blood hit the ceiling! He was so shocked that he ended up kicking me in the shin! He tied a tourniquet on my arm drove me to hospital and was then soundly told off by the nurses for using a tourniquet and told he should have just applied pressure like I did - that made me feel a lot better after the kick in the shin I had four stitches in my wrist and never once cried.

In my life, I've been smacked on the bum, hit with wooden spoons, hairbrushes and tennis shoes, my nose broken twice, leg broken in two places, floating ribs three times, black eyes, split lips, multiple cuts - some down to the bone, shot with an air-pistol, had nails fall off after trapping them in doors, knocked out by a golf ball, fights at school on a weekly basis, a dart thrown into my forehead, punched unconscious, had a small car fall on my shoulder, home dental surgery with needle-files and pliers but I can't remember crying. I can't remember any of them really hurting enough to cry.

This isn't me trying to show off or act tough, I just don't seem to notice pain as much as others do. I was much more likely to cry if I thought I'd done something bad, upset someone or something affected me emotionally. I still cry at the drop of a hat but not over pain.

I tried to be brave as much as I possibly could but whenever I got hurt the generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) would kick in and I would panic and I usually screamed and cried more out of fear and not necessarily the actual pain that occurred for whatever injury that happened.

I cried if I hurt myself up until I was about 10 when a guardian told me to stop acting like a big girl , this comment had a big impact on me and I've barely cried since.

I cried a lot but I have low pain sensitivity

I am hypersensitive and hyposensitive to pain depending on the pain , it's a bit weird tbh

I always cried when I got hurt as a kid and was terrified of things that I knew would cause pain, like needles or the dentist.

Puberty and profanity seem to go together. Around 12 I, and most kids, seem to switch from crying in response to pain to saying cuss words when struck with physical pain. Its almost as if learning four letter words reorganizes your brain. Or maybe puberty reorganizes your brain, or maybe its some of both.