• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    and I’ve broken bones without realizing it.

    Comparing something very painful to something you didn’t even notice seems an odd choice

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      That’s fair, lol. I chose it because I wasn’t in shock and the doctors said I should have been in serious pain, as a metric of my (dangerously) high pain threshold, but then I didn’t give any context.