Christ van WillegenSometimes, NT behavior can be really dangerous for ND people! I was told to use an inhaler for my lungs. "Exhale, inhale deeply, hold your breath for 10 seconds, exhale, and rinse your throat." After falling to the floor twice from losing consciousness, I contacted my doctor. He told me that "we say 10s, because then people hold their breath for 7, which is enough. But, knowing you, you hold it for 10, which may lead to fainting. So, hold your breath for 7 s". Great... @actuallyautistic
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Alex C has moved@cvwillegen @actuallyautistic Another medical scenario where NT culture collapses under the weight of its recursive nest of expected deceptions is those ubiquitous 1-to-10 smiley-face pain scales. Most NTs will start frowning at ādiscomfort (2)ā (not "intense (6)") and many autistics will smile and mask until āintenseā (and then go flat-faced again at "excruciating (9)"), so the smiles don't match the numbers or the experiences. I guess weāre all supposed to realize itās just a metaphor and everyone's just meant to guess the correct level... except in that case, whatās the point of the pictures at all? š
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Lots of complicated stuff around pain an neurodivergent people. There's that thing where light touch is nearly unbearable, but a broken bone doesn't really register as serious pain for many ND people ?
I remember telling a doctor that my dislocated toe was 0 on the scale because right at that moment, when nobody was touching it, it didn't hurt.
He was so profoundly baffled.
otheorange_tag@Zumbador @neuralex @cvwillegen @actuallyautistic I ran a half marathon 10 days after breaking my little toe, to be fair it was more a lesson to my younger NT kid. Strangely it didn't hurt much. (This might be an alternate statement of hunting down food with damage, is why we're in the gene pool? #JustGuessing)