Any of your DCs with AS/ASD have a high pain threshold??

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DD1 5 AS, has a massive pain threshold nothing really seems to hurt her, she fell off the swing today while playing in the garden with DD2 and never battered an eyelid and she went with a right bump.

While bathing her last night i noticed a massive bruise at the top of her leg, apparently a boy at school kicked her . I asked her if she'd told teacher and she said no it didnt hurt, it tickled and i just laughed at him .........Yet another thing for me to chat with teacher about GGgggRRR.

Shes not always been like this it just the last few months. Its really starting to worry me, it seems really strange, are any of your DCs like this??

yes...ds1 now 14 is the same!

he has broken his arm...his ankle...and not felt anything (total of 4 breaks so far)

Yet he cannot tolerate anyone touching the back of his neck!!!!

He also seems unaware of extremes of temperature

At 5 he would scream if anyone tried to 'make him better' if he fell over etc...he just got up and ran off.

DS2 however is the other extreme- he feels everything- and gets very nasty if someone accidently touches him- he's best if he knows he is going to be touched.

I've mentioned ds1's high pain threashold to the paediatrician and his broken bones...and she has expressed no concern.

At hospital i have always explained the fact he has AS and high pain threashold- as a few nurses etc have been suprised that xray showed injury as ds in no discomfort

hope that helps-

J has bruises all over him because he is so clumsy, but even the huge purple ones seem to happen without him noticing, as he can never remember how he got them and looks at them as though he can't imagine how they got there.

My ds was dx'd w/ASD when he was 9 (although i knew it years before that, things are just sloooow here). I was looking in my notes from when he was 7 and 9 months old, where I wrote, obviously unaware of what was to come later (i mean the dx) "could he have a high pain threshhold??". I think this is pretty known- the wacked out sensory situation w/ASD kids.. it can go both ways- either too sensory or not sensory enough.

DS2(5) is like this. Came back from school the other day with a massive graze on his arm - his TA said he didn't cry, though it was obvious he'd hurt himself. If DS1 has a tiny graze, he makes a HUGE fuss about going in the bath 'Ooooh no Mum it's hurting it's hurting, no I can't put it in the water owowowowow let me get out it's hurting....etc etc'. DS2 put his gory elbow into the water, took it out again, looked at it with interest, said 'Ouch' in a tiny voice, then just put it back and got on with his pouring.

At least he reacts a bit when he gets hurt now though - when he was 2 and 3 he didn't react at all, which was very worrying.

Ds can get quite nasty injuries and hardly notices especially if he is engrossed! He has got more 'normal' as he has got older and demands a plaster if he notices blood now!

My DS1 (ASD) is over sensitive to pain - He is a real cry baby when it comes to even tiny bumps!

My DD with ASD is extremely sensitive to pain. Slightest knock and she's off! She hurt her hand in the garden the other day and it was bleeding a bit. She would not use her hand at all for 2 days, just sat with it cupped, palm upwards till she said it 'felt better'

Thanks for your your replys, im glad my DD is not the only one like this .

Its not something that i had ever heard of before.

MUM23ASD - @ 4 breaks, This is what worrys me tbh, what if she really injured herself and didnt realise ??

Another over sensitive one here - the screaming when she hurts her knees is hideous.

She doesn't seem to feel the cold though

My Ds had this although it is much better since going gfcf.
He laos broke his collar bone and we didn't realise for three days
He feels things now but sadly still can't tell us or indicate to us when he has hurt himself.
Not sure which is worse scenario tbh

aww pagwatch, being a mum 'is' making the hurt go away its awful when we dont know where the hurt is.{hugs}

DS5 (2y) seems to have a very high tolerance for pain. On holiday in a strange kitchen - i was guarding the oven/grill jealously, when DS5 managed to slip thru and stick his hand under the grill (electric-bright light) and i HEARD THE SIZZLE it was awful - but he just flicked his hand a couple of times and wandered off. For a week there was this horrid blistery mess on his hand and never once did he even look at it - like it wasnt even there. Thankfully hes a quick healer too. But its a worry cos we get pain for a reason, and if he doesnt feel it...

Hello,

op; yes, ds 12 was like this as a baby, he didnt cry when he fell down, and once in nursery was pushed and cut the back of his head in the garden. Staff didnt know until story time when he put his hand up and said " there's blood on my head" like it wasnt even his blood!

He also did a ballet class with a broken finger after I had told him to stop making a fuss. [guilty parent]

He can also scream blue murder for the smallest scratch, so it's a bit of a mystery for me.

DS1 does. He is constantly covered in bruises and if he, say smacks one arm off the corner of a table, does it with the other to make things even.

He freaks out when he sees a tiny scratch on himself, mind!

My 3 year old ds does not appear to feel much pain. He just looks shocked when he falls over, in a 'how did I get down her' way. He bumps his head really hard on wooden floors, and doesn't bat an eye lid, yet hates it if anyone touches his head, bizarre. He doesn't like his hands to be touched, and doesn't notice if he cuts his finger, even if bleeding.
My 5 year old screams at the slightest touch, and can't stand anyone to touch him or bump into him. My 19 month old ds is the same as my 5 year old, and screams when he hears loud noise, or touches rough things, and has lately started to remove all his clothes and refuses to wear them.
I have an extremely high pain threshold, my dh has a very low pain threshold. I didn't feel a thing when I broke my leg while pg. It swelled up, and I was rushed to hospital in ambulance, most embarrasing!

DS (AS) went out in the snow in pjs - frozen to the core and unbothered. He cut his eyelid and was quite interested in the way the blood dripped off his glasses - but went mad when the nice first aider put his hand on the top of DSs head.