AS and mysterious injuries

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I've read that lots of people with AS can hurt themselves and not know and that it has to do with a hyposensitivity to pain (vs. hypersensitivity, though the same person can have both) and motor issues aka clumsiness. Right now I have 5 bruises and only know where 2 of them came from, along with one mysterious abrasion on my arm. I'm constantly running into things, so I'm betting that's where they cam from.

I was wondering if anyone else experiences the same thing.

Edit: I was also wondering how many bruises people have right now.

Last edited by happymusic on 10 Apr 2010, 2:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yup. Dyspraxia ftw!

I've never hurt myself seriously, so I think it's kinda funny, actually.

I find that I wake up with different scratches and bruising from time to time.

I only have one bruise right now but several scratches/ cuts, and I dont know where I got them.

I always thought I just bruised easily but maybe it's because I don't notice how hard I'm knocking into something. I'm always clipping corners and sometimes walking into low tree branches.

I've found scratches and bruises on me. I don't always pay that much attention and I don't hurt myself on purpose. Last night I got a bloody nose and I don't know how that happened.

I pulled some muscles in my back last week without realizing it until after the fact, but usually if I bang into something (and I'm clumsy as hell), I know it immediately.

That's sounds the same as being perfectly normal to me. Everybody has areas that are highly sensitive and other areas not so much, and where those spots are varies quite a bit from person to person. It seems to have to do with how the nerve receptors in the skin get distributed across the surface area of the dermis.

That's why there's no one-size-fits-all answer when first time tattoo clients ask "How bad is is it gonna hurt?" No way to tell until I start perforating your skin with a needle several hundred times a minute. Then you tell me.

Almost everybody complains about the spine and the tops of the feet, though...




I swear I do this at least once a week...

I know what you mean - like knees versus fingertips, etc. But in this case (maybe I should have clarified) I mean that the same person could sometimes really get upset over an injury and other times not even feel another comparable one.

it seems i am always barking my shins, stubbing my toes, and banging my head on some low-lying overhead pain-in-the-neck thing.

when i was little i was always getting hurt i had so many x rays but hardly ever broke a bone ( till i was older) so it could have been due to hypersensitivity to pain than a small fall hurt much more for me which is why we though it should get checked out and x rayed

once or twice the insurance company called up to check out why i was getting injured so much (too make sure there was no abuse or anything )

I'm just about in a constant state of having some sort of injury on my body and having no idea how it got there.

I am not super tall, but taller than average for a woman, and I often underestimate my height going under stuff and end up wapping my head. Not too hard, but it is annoying. I have been the same height for at least 20 years now so you would think I'd get used to it.

It is funny, I can calmly look at a slice in my upper arm where a bit of obsidian went clean through, and calmly take out a sewing needle and some waxed floss and sew it up (Rock climbing incident in Oregon)

I can drop a steak knife into the top of my foot, calmly pull it out, and fret more about the stain on my sock than the fact the knife was deep enough to "twang" when I pulled it out.

However, give me a splinter or sliver....and it will drive me completely crazy until I can pull it out.

I'm constantly walking into parts of spiny plants or tripping over the sidewalk, but I tend not to notice unless it results in a particularly nasty injury. I'm always covered with mysterious bruises.

Yeah. It doesn't hurt me when people step on my foot, even if they're twice the size of me. If I cut myself with a razor I barely feel it, if at all. I once cut my foot on a rock and didn't notice until my mom yelled at me for leaving bloody footprints on the floor. XD etc. etc.

I do get hurt, but I just don't notice it sometimes.

I have two dents in my knee that weren't there before.