Imaging living in a world where you do not feel pain. I found this article on CNN.com, and found t to be very interesting. Many of us hear of common disorders, but its the disorders that are not common and we do not know much about. I could not imaging what not feeling hot, or cold, or what being in physical pain would be like. Growing up we are all told, do not touch that or you will burn yourself, eventually we do touch something thats hot and we realize, hey that did hurt and we learn. Looking at this there maybe other dangers not only to the person living with the disorder, but those around him. hitting someone else, not possibly knowing how being struck with a hard object may cause physical pain to another. One thing the article leaves me to wonder is, can they feel at all, do these people have the sensory of touch?
World without pain is hell, parent says
(CNN) -- When you first meet 4-year-old Roberto Salazar, you can't help but notice his unwavering smile and constant laughter. By all accounts, he's a very happy boy.
It is only when he rams his head violently into walls or plays a little too roughly with a schoolmate, all the while smiling, that you are reminded that he suffers from an incredibly rare genetic disorder.
Roberto is one of 17 people in the United States with "congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis," referred to as CIPA by the few people who know about it.
Roberto was born in July 2001, becoming Luis' and Juan's little brother. As a newborn, his parents thought he was the perfect baby.
"Roberto was wonderful. He never cried. He would sleep 23 out of 24 hours a day. He never cried to eat, never cried that his diaper is itching," said his mother, Susan Stingley-Salazar.
At 3 months, things abruptly changed. Roberto refused to eat. He was rapidly losing weight. His parents tried desperately to find ways to "force a child to eat that doesn't want to eat," Stingley-Salazar said.
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