It really is true that our response to pain is in part a learned response. If your parents overreacted to your minor injuries, you’ll learn that’s how you’re supposed to respond to minor injuries.
Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
it’s always the abuse.
my wife was neglected as a child and always told to “walk it off”.
our first child, she didn’t have any pain mitigation. the nurses were horrified but morbidly curious.
when she says it hurts I believe it would incapacitate a normal person.
personally, I have worked on mind-over-matter pain mitigation (I fell asleep during a root canal) but hers takes it to a whole new level.
I have seen toddlers fall over and be fine until their mum started freaking out, THEN they start crying.
I walked up a hill and hurt my hip a bit. Then I got excited and jumped around dancing later that night, and BAM. Hip has hurt for 4 days now (as in, hobble-walking), and considering my track record, will now hurt just slightly until I die and doctors will have no fucking idea why.
Doctors rarely have a clue about the why of anything. They respond to trigger words, fill out paperwork, and send you on your merry way.
I won’t even go for this, even if it continues to hurt, because I’ve learned this lesson.
Just do the dance in reverse
The kid is really going to feel that in a few decades.
Yeah, that’s the secret. All of the crap you shrug off as a kid just bides its time to come back when you’re old. Like, 30.
Hahaha! Yes! You may live until you’re 90, kids, but 60 of those will be spent suffering! You’ll be old by 30! Boomers! Hahaha! Boomers everywhere!
haha, this is it, this artist achieved expertise over layout.
I like a lot of their ideas, but this one is executed pretty flawlessly.
very funny.
