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.
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 @southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
They are waiting for India to rename themselves to Bharat so Pakistan can claim the name.