Do you experience physical pain?

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This is one issue which makes me wonder if Asperger's is the right diagnosis for me. It seems that I am hurt easily, and I don't deal with pain well at all. On the other hand, like many others here, I sometimes find little wounds on myself and have no idea how they got there. I bruise quite easily and have a long history of other people exclaiming, "Oh, my, how did you get that terrible bruise!?!" and I have no idea how it happened. This tends to raise suspicions that I must have some terrible evil secret in my life -- either I'm a battered woman in denial, or I have a drug problem and I'm having accidents while I'm stoned that I can't remember later, or perhaps something even more sinister. But it's none of the above. (With one such "terrible bruise" I later remembered, finally, that in getting out of the car, I put my foot down too close to the car and when I put my weight on it, my leg mashed pretty heavily against the narrow ledge of the car body. I, of course, simply moved my foot and kept going, and didn't give it another thought until someone pointed out the bruise to me.) It's just that the normal activities of life leave bruises on me. I think I've learned to push aside sensations of pain because pain is such a constant.

Wow, yet another thing that assures me that I've got AS.

I'm a pretty competetive cyclist, and have had some pretty bad crashes, but never noticed anything was wrong until a lot later, one time I sprained my wrist, broke 2 fingers and pulled tendons and didnt really notice until about a day after the crash, and still raced on it despite what the doctor said with no real trouble from the pain...

I used cry when I hurt myself all the time. It still really hurts when I bump into stuff but I don't show it much.

Me (and my NT brother) both wake up with mysterious bruises, cuts, etc. I think it's something most everyone experiences. The only pain I feel instantly is when I see it happening, and back/foot pain. If I didn't know I cut myself, I wouldn't know until I saw it myself. I'm really careful though. I notice glass too. Ohh...I hate glass. The thing about glass is, it doesn't really hurt. It's the fear of bleeding to death that gets me. Unless I've stepped on glass, there's almost no pain at all. It'll sting some, but I know some tricks,etc.

I sometimes find cuts and bruises and I have no idea how it happened.But most of the time (if it's something big) I know when I hurt myself.But then again the other day I was chicken fighting with my cousin and I felt no pain until the next day.

SpaceCase

I cut myself earlier today and the only reason I noticed in about a minute was because I started to smell blood.

As a kid, I had an extremely low threshold of pain. In other words, I felt pain where NT kids would feel only a mild touch. It probably has to do with my AS. My parents and other kids, however, had a different name for this symptom: wimpiness.

It's rather strange. Sometimes I know I'm hurt, but I could take the pain better. I remember once when I chipped my tooth on a pole, and the root and everything came out, I stuck my tooth back in all by myself; I was 12 years old. I could also turn on very hot water and I could stand it. I could feel pain, but sometimes I have little or no reaction.