TIL of a boy in Pakistan that would stab himself with knives to entertain others. Researchers found he carried a rare gene mutation that prevents pain nerves to transmit their signals to the brain.
Feeling no pain is actually terrible as you won't know when you hurt yourself and you don't properly learn to avoid dangerous situation. People with this mutation have to rely on others for danger assessment as for example they won't notice easily that they have open wounds or even broken bones. Tragically this boy died at the age of 13 when jumping/falling off a building; the sources differ but it's likely that he engaged in risky behavior if he couldn't feel any pain from falling.
Edit: The original title improperly stated that the boy was from India. Corrected it to Pakistan.
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TIL of a boy in India*
*Pakistan. The article starts "A Pakistani teenager..."
How does one fuck this up so monumentally?
u/takeheart, how do you fuck this up so monumentally?
Not sure if you meant it to or not, but you can't ping users by doing u/username on lemmy. You have to enter the lemmy version, like @[email protected]
It's a valid question. I originally read about it in a physical book, then wrote the (misconstrued) headline from memory before finding a digital source that people could click on. I've corrected it now.
They are waiting for India to rename themselves to Bharat so Pakistan can claim the name.
These people also tend to injure themselves unconsciously and/or while they sleep, like chewing through their tongue, lips, or finger tips
CIPA. Congenital Insensitivity To Pain.
House had an episode on it.
Brilliant Minds also had an episode where a kid had this.
What a horrifying thing to learn about one’s self. All the fun of leprosy with none of the viral load.
"prevents to transmit?"