Like many people on spectrum, my body has issues translated messages from my seven senses. Yes, we actually have seven senses. Our seven senses are vestibular (balance), proprioceptive (movement), sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Those messages can be confusing to when certain sensory responses are either overly sensitive and under response to the information they are receiving. Most people under response issues, they have issues with seeking that response.
As child, I was a balance and movement seeker because those responses would under responses most of the time. I was always a clumsy because I was not sure where I was in the space around me. I am self-deprecating when it comes how clumsy I am. I have always been someone need movement including spinning. I used to have what they called "sit and spin" and would sit and spin for hours if they let me. Like most people on spectrum, I have always had a higher pain tolerance.
That pain tolerance was disadvantage. Most the time, I had issues having the doctors believe that I was actually in pain. There was many times growing up, I remember my parents fighting with the doctors to believe me because I was in tears by how much pain I was in. One of the biggest ones, I remember was I had horrible knee pain before they found the issue with my back and the doctors said it was bad growing pains and I would outgrow them. I never actually outgrow them because it was not growing pains it was side effect of my back.
In the beginning when they found the issue with my back, I was so young and growing that I did not have any pain from it. It was not until they put me in the back brace that I actually had issues with pain in my back. Luckily for me, the chiropractor I seen for most of my life has learned that if I am complaining something bothering me, it actually hurts. But now, that I deal with chronic pain on regular, I still have to play with high pain tolerance because most time I do not say something hurt until it really bad which sometimes I have to listen better to that response than I do.
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Autism, From Someone Who Is On The Spectrum
Non-FictionAutism from the perspective of a woman on the spectrum