Intensified Pain in Autism – Tuesday 31st January 2023

Intensified Pain in Autism – Tuesday 31st January 2023

An interesting article I saw today and thought I would make a few comments.
Previously, I have made the point that Autism would appear very different as a late onset condition in an adult.
The reason for my saying that is in part related to the subject of intensified pain and more.
The child has yet to develop and learn, whilst an adult has already acquired knowledge and is fully developed. The adult would instantly recognise something is amiss, the child cannot know and the response is naturally very different.

As we know, people with blindness tend to have acute hearing. This is brain driven, as well as the person actively turning to sound in order to know their environment.
My own experience was increased hearing, sense of smell, touch, pain and more.
The brain must have information and the child who has been shut off from the world isn’t getting much input and will in most cases I believe find certain senses and functions being increased in their intensity.
The longer the child is shut off the more the intensity is increased. Unfortunately, once the child starts to progress these intensities remain and require dampening (which is easier said than done).
Those children and adults with the more severe effect of Autism experience this phenomenon to a much greater degree. It isn’t that they have less tolerance, it’s just that much more difficult to cope with intensity so much greater than the child/adult with the more high functioning or less severe form of Autism experiences.

One can appear to not feel pain if the facial expression or vocal expression isn’t developed or yet to develop.
Fiona MacLeod (C)2023