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What is it like to live without being able to feel physical pain from outside stimuli?
For example, to have congenital analgesia? What are the advantages and drawbacks?
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I remember hearing stories about people with leprosy, from a charity worker who came to speak at my school years ago, to raise awareness of it. It's a condition where people cannot feel touch. It is common in certain countries.
I heard different stories about this twice in 2 different schools by two different people.
The charity worker went on for ages about her background, the charity, and the background of the sufferer of this illness. (Yes it is an illness.)
Eventually, the problem came where the person would keep on injuring themselves (more likely at work), because they could not feel any pain. They would go home with marks on their legs. They might have a splinter of broken glass on their foot at home, and never know about it. It most often would happen with hot drinks and hot water (in a bath maybe). Little things, that all add up. Eventually there became a point where the sufferer of this illness wanted it cured, alongside their family, so that they would stop harming themselves.
The charity worker spoke about how the charity she works for, cured the people of their leprosy, by paying for them to have the treatment.
So the moral of the story is, that people wanted the ability to feel pain, as without it, their life would be more dangerous. The End.