Watch now (2 mins) | As an Autistic person, my experience of pain is quite different to that of non-Autistic people.
͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
| | |
|  |
As an Autistic person, my experience of pain is quite different to that of non-Autistic people. This happens for a number of reasons Interoceptive Differences: my interoception, the sense of what is happening inside my body, is interpreted differently by my brain meaning that I can be hypersensitive to some pains and hypo sensitive to others Monotropic Attention Style: Monotropism means that my body mind tends to apply all of it's attentional resources to a narrower range of things, like a laser rather than a flashlight. Because of this, I may not notice pain immediately, or it may be all I can think about. Gaslighting and Invalidation: Doctors and other healthcare professionals have constantly told me I am wrong about my experience, and so I now ignore my own feelings.
All of this means that when I experience pain, I often don't appear the way that medical textbooks have taught people to expect. As a result, I am often ignores or told I am exaggerating. You can support my work with a paid subscription and get access to exclusive posts and my new podcast. Click here to get 50% off of your first year. https://www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/50off You're currently a free subscriber to David Gray-Hammond. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid | |
No comments:
Post a Comment