 autism and PAIN. I struggle immensely with needles, scratches, cuts, and acute pain, but I'm very hypersensitive to blunt pain. When we think of sensory things, any sensory things, they actually have different nerves that travel to your brain to give you different types of signals. All of these different sensory experiences, they can be very, very individualized. Take diffuse or blunt pain is typically referred to the C type fibers. You kind of send these very, very slow but very continuous signals to your brain to tell you that you're in pain. The alpha, delta fibers, those are very, very sharp and very, very quick. Different nerves can have different activation profiles, different sensitivities, different mechanisms, and so everyone's sensory profiles can be much more complex than you actually think. If you enjoyed this, follow me for more daily autism content.