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Painful sensitivity to touch? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/autism@lemmy.world
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Just wondering if anyone else experiences this. Things like my hair laying on the side of my head or bracelets cause a medium-intense aching pain on my head or arm. Some days, I'll have a pretty bad headache just from wearing a shirt, and I'll occasionally just have to take it off. It sounds like a milder form of allodynia, maybe? I know touch sensitivity is definitely a thing, but I've never known anyone who experiences it quite this way. It definitely scales with how well rested I am, too.

Anywho, I've tried searching for this before, but it only somehow just now occurred to me to ask my fellow neuro-spicies if this is common. Thanks!

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[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't say I've had it to such a degree, but I do have a sensitivity to touch (well, every sense). I don't have a problem if I am touching the thing (I am initiating the touch), but if the thing touches me (I am the recipient of the touch) I get this growing impulse to get away from it to the point of getting shaky. In some extreme cases it will feel like my skin is on fire even though there is no rash.

I do not know if your severity is common but I can easily see it being a thing.

[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I can get a version of this, but instead of heat it feels like my skin is full of bees.

[–] Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's kinda the vibe I get. It's definitely a receiving instead of initiating thing for me, too. I don't know that it's worse (because skin on fire sounds awful), but it's kinda different.