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I think that this is the first I've read of this specific condition. I've heard of people who had a lack of sensation, period, but not of this. In any case, yeah--not having a sense of pain at all would be a pretty debilitating condition. The research possibilities presented by people with the condition are pretty exciting though.
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After my father had his brain aneurisms, he lost the ability to feel pain or other sensations in some of his extremities. One day, he put his hand on a burner that was on. His first clue that something was amiss was the smell of burning flesh.
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I read a sci-fi story once where a disease on a colony world swapped people's pleasure/pain perception, making pain feel like pleasure to them. They wiped themselves out in a horrifying slaughter/orgy.
It was one of the more disturbing things I've ever read.
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Heheh, I heard this on NPR this afternoon and I actually wondered who'd be the first Jatraquero to post it. I won my internal bet Posts: 17164 | Registered: Jun 2001
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Well, I'm glad they changed the name of that Familial Rectal Pain syndrome. Now I can go back to using it for pain in the @$$ relatives. Though it's all horrible, and reminds me of Parable of the Sower.
It also causes me to wonder how bad of a problem I would have to suffer to decide that I didn't want to have my own children. Granted, people don't always choose to have their own children, they don't know what life is without their disorder, and I doubt very many people don't have some kind of problem (my husband has bad vision and funny hips that don't allow him to run and my family is prone to affective disorders.) There was a period after my first child died where we were afraid to go through that again, even though it was a fluke.
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