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7:32pm February 22, 2012

Another “is this normal?” post.

Normal for an autistic person, I mean. I’m guessing autism and in particular overload level is what unites the two, but I could be way wrong.

So I’ve always got varying degrees of a kind of pain that could be neuropathy and could be central pain. And right this instant it’s taking the unusual form of burning, evil pinpricks everywhere in my body. (Worse in some areas than other ones.) Not like anything is falling asleep, just lots and lots of pinpricks really close to each other. Which is a somewhat unusual but not unheard of pattern for it to take.

Meanwhile, instead of my usual tinnitus tone, it’s… as if the pinpricks were made into sound. Like a high pitched silvery sizzling static, only with each tiny piece of it – like the pinpricks – audible yet rapid.

So I basically both feel and hear pinpricks everywhere, except of course they’re in the form of that horrific burning that most people with nerve or central pain are probably well aware of by now. It’s really unpleasant and distracting to put it mildly.

Has anyone had a remotely similar experience in terms of a type of pain matching a type of tinnitus? I guess it could be synesthesia but something tells me that’s very much the wrong answer, given that this is not normal. Okay, the fact that the sound is silver is synesthesia but I mean besides that, I doubt it.