I Can't Feel Pain

hi i'm ryan and i have a rare disorder i don't feel pain i didn't always know this though here's how it all started my parents thought i was the most perfect baby in the world why i rarely ever cried i was laughing most of the time and only broke into tears when i was hungry or needed my diaper changed my parents friends who also had babies were so envious that my parents were able to get a full eight hours of sleep each night one funny story that my dad tells everyone over dinner is that when i was a toddler i was playing in the dirt outside he heard me laughing uncontrollably so he came to see what could have been so amusing about a pile of dirt when he looked at me he gasped i had a huge scorpion in my hands and i was just playing with it like it was a teddy bear he also says i had a huge red mark on my leg where it had stung me he screamed at me to drop it then picked me up and ran into the house i was still laughing apparently my parents took me to the doctor to check if i was okay and i was however no one could understand why i wasn't screaming in pain before i continue please don't forget to like the video and subscribe to this channel and make sure you hit that notification bell for more awesome content like this i had two older brothers who were always pushing each other around and when i was big enough to play their wrestling and boxing games they included me too they were always hitting or punching me and instead of crying i just hit and punched back harder they'd often stop the games because they were in so much pain i found it all amusing because i felt nothing when i was about six my family and i were on the beach and my mom got a sea urchin stuck in her foot she screamed and shouted in pain then she burst into tears my father tried to pull it out but the more he tried the more it hurt i really couldn't understand why it affected my mother so much so i went into the sea and caught another sea urchin i dropped it onto the sand and jumped on it it tickled mom this is fun why are you crying i said oh my god ryan she said we both had urchins stuck in our feet i was giggling and my mom was crying my poor dad had to deal with it all he drove us to the hospital where they helped us to remove the spikes for my mother this seemed unbearable but it didn't affect me at all and i guess that is when i realized i was a bit different i decided to use this difference to my advantage at school i developed the nickname fearless because i was always doing the most outrageous stunts i climbed the top of the monkey bars and deliberately throw myself down or i'd swing really high then just jump off mid air one day i brought a lighter to school and tried to impress a girl by burning my finger it was so much fun but i have to warn you don't try any of this at home or anywhere for that matter i got into trouble for this because eventually the other kids wanted to attempt my stunts when they did they'd end up in excruciating pain with broken limbs it got so bad that my parents were called into a meeting and i was expelled for being a bad influence at my new school i became a bully because i was angry that those stupid boys from my other school got me in trouble i became the most feared boy at school and people would think twice before crossing my path the bigger boys in the higher grades tried to mess with me once but i beat them up so badly that they learned to stay away from me they were so shocked when i only laughed at them while they punched and kicked me i have to admit that part of me really loved the attention and respect i would do things just for the thrill and attention for example one afternoon my parents decided they'd take us kids out to enjoy a cool stroll in the zoo after laughing at the penguins and observing the zebras i began to feel a bit bored as we approached the lion's pit i got a bright idea ryan ryan no my mom screamed but it was too late i had already jumped in i walked around making funny faces at the lions while the crowd screamed for me to get out many people had already taken out their phones and they were recording i ignored them because there was a cute little lion cub approaching me i ran towards it and picked it up suddenly i heard more shouting ryan look out my dad said before i could even turn around a lioness the cubs mother i guess jumped on my back and bit my arm i turned around and pried her jaws apart with my bare arms then i laughed and hopped out of the lions pit i was bleeding but i seemed totally unbothered by the whole incident i went viral that same afternoon everyone was talking about me in the weeks that followed i became so popular that i was invited by several talk show hosts to talk on their shows it was all the attention i'd been craving and more as a teenager i continued participating in extreme sports i got tired of the bully reputation so when i moved to high school i hung out with the tough kids who were also into extreme sports we called ourselves the daredevils and every other week we try a different challenge we went mountain biking paragliding skydiving and base jumping but my ultimate favorite was cliff diving i loved the adrenaline rush i'd get while falling through the air and then crashing on the sea unlike my friends i had absolutely no fear one afternoon on one of our cliff diving adventures i had an experience that influenced the rest of my life it was just like any ordinary day but while making silly gestures on a cliff i ended up losing my balance instead of falling into the sea i hit the rocks and i ended up breaking both my arm and my leg i only knew this because this is what the x-rays at the hospital revealed i felt completely fine luckily my problem could be easily fixed but the doctors were extremely puzzled about why i seem to feel no pain at all although i could have been discharged earlier they decided to keep me longer several tests were conducted and after that they did several more after what seemed like weeks they called me and my parents to a meeting many doctors were present and everyone looked at me like i was some sort of alien the head doctor looked at my parents and said this is something we've never seen before at our hospital your son ryan is incapable of feeling pain he said what my dad said think about the way he has behaved his whole life i'm pretty sure there were many clear indicators but now that we've done the tests we know for sure replied the doctor well there was the scorpion sting when he was a baby and he never cried when his brothers hit him and he'd do all kinds of crazy stunts in elementary school then the lion my dad went blank for a while and then it all clicked well ryan needs to be extremely careful because he is unable to feel pain he seems to constantly put himself in life-threatening situations he will do things that ordinary humans would probably think twice about attempting think about it he could have killed himself while jumping off that cliff he said our suggestion is that he stops engaging in dangerous sports can you just calm down and behave like a normal young man for a while he said while looking at me i don't really care what any of you have to say i said while walking out of the room and slamming the door i was angry how dare they all talk about me like that while i was right in the room i loved my life and i loved the adrenaline rush i felt when i took risks i wasn't about to put myself in a bubble just because i couldn't feel pain instead of persuading me to be careful the doctor's revelation caused me to feel like i was superior to everyone else i decided to use my ability to make money i started making videos while i hurt myself to see if i could get lots of views on youtube i did everything i could think of i stuck needles in my hands smashed bricks on my head and one time i even set myself on fire people were horrified but i found it hilarious i gained more and more views and more and more followers when i finally hit 1 million i felt the greatest sense of accomplishment i had ever felt in my life i also continued my dangerous stunts and when i was old enough to drive i did every single thing i was told not to do in driving school i also bought a motorbike which became my favorite thing in the universe i learned how to do many stunts and of course i did them all without a helmet this was the worst mistake and maybe i should have cared and listened to my mom when she begged me to wear it one night while i was biking through the mountains and testing out some stunts all by myself my light stopped working it didn't bother me much but i decided i should try to head back home i went speeding through the mountains back to the town i really enjoyed feeling the breeze through my hair i didn't think that speeding was a bad idea because these roads were usually clear at night suddenly i saw a bright white light and heard a huge bang then everything went black i woke up to a masked face staring directly at me i looked around and realized i was in an operating room i looked at my body and realized i had many cuts all over the surgeons were trying to stitch me back together and it looked really gross i didn't feel anything but just seeing myself like that really upset me i was given a few sleeping pills and when i woke up hours later my parents were sitting by my side oh ryan my love what have you done to yourself now my mom said while wiping the tears off her face what do you mean mom i just feel a bit drowsy but i'm perfectly fine i said while trying to sit up but i couldn't move i tried and tried again but nothing worked what happened to me i asked you were in a really horrible accident you were paralyzed from the waist down and you might be confined to a wheelchair for the next three years honey my mom said but that can't be i didn't feel anything i said shocked at that moment the doctor walked in although you don't feel anything you have badly injured yourself your body needs time to heal after two or three years we'll get started with the physical therapy to help you walk again but you will never be the same i'm sorry he said i sighed and thought that i should have listened to them when they asked me to be more careful i was filled with regrets i now have one year left to go and i'm really hoping that i'll be able to stand soon although i still can't feel pain i feel humiliated and frustrated like this i should have made better decisions and when i get out of this wheelchair i will stop seeking attention and i will try to be a lot more careful

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Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2020