Isaac Brown is a five year old that feels no pain. He was born with a congenital insensitivity to pain. This means that he rarely ever feels pain. He can break a bone and not realize what happened and even touch a burner on the stove and feel nothing. Isaac's parents are in the process of teaching him what pain is. I think this would be very hard to do. It's already hard enough to teach a child to say their ABC's, let alone know how to "feel." I think there are advantages and disadvantages to this. It would be nice not to feel pain, but this can be led to extreme activities taking place. What are your thoughts on this condition? Would you like to feel no pain?
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Neither could I. I bet feelings are the hardest to teach. Especially when they're something you shouldn't have to teach.
I would love this ability! I would hope that I would be able to process that I was injured so that I could get it taken care of. I'm envious of this child! I just hope that he can distinguish what pain is suppose to be so he doesn't get hurt too severely. The parents should continuously keep note on how to teach the child more about pain.
Wow this is crazy. Im sure he knows when something happens he just doenst know its bad cause it doesnt hurt. This would be very dangerous, he could be living with a terrible injury and not know. He probably has to have check ups alot so they keep track of him.
I think it would be awesome to not be able to feel any pain. When he is older though he might do some dumb things to try and impress his friends but he will probably be smart about it. I wouldn't want to feel any pain at all.
It would be pretty awesome to not feel pain, especially when playing sports or working. Not feeling pain can be dangerous though, because you could be doing something that could be hurting you and not even noticing, possibly causing broken bones or even to be paralyzed.
This would be very scary for him and his parents. To me that would be so strange not to feel any pain. I guess in some situations, I would not like to feel pain, but then I think if I were in this little boy's situation, I would to know what pain felt like. It is scary to think that even this little boy touching an oven on its hottest temperature that he can't feel a thing. Do you know if the doctors can do anything to make him feel pain? Or is their nothing at all?
I'm not sure if they can do anything. That'd be something interesting to figure out though. It makes me wonder if he is like a paralyzed person that can move...
I definitely think that there are advantages and disadvantages. It would be nice to not feel pain. You wouldn't have to deal with it, but you wouldn't know if you had hurt something like your ankle or wrist and could be walking on an unhealed fractured ankle.
There are ups and downs to not feeling pain. Ups being that small things (splinters, sores, non-serious wounds) wouldn't be bothersome, though the downs being that you lose an important sense. Pain is there primarily to alert you of danger (example: hand on active stove and you not knowing it), without pain, you could be in danger and not know it. In all, it's better to feel pain and react than to not feel it and regret.
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