# Lanza "couldn't feel physical pain." Explanations, please?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanza-couldnt-feel-physical-pain-explanations-please/644320 "2012-12-17T17:18:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lanza-couldnt-feel-physical-pain-explanations-please/644320/5 "2012-12-17T18:31:53Z")

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In [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=675704), **China Guy** posted this:

> [@Would male adolescents prone to rage fits respond to beatings as discipline?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-male-adolescents-prone-to-rage-fits-respond-to-beatings-as-discipline/644189/29):
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> I have a daughter on the autism spectrum (whatever that means).
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> She has a very high pain tolerance. Whatever way she is wired, if you spank her, she will just turn it into a game in the future. As in deliberately misbehave and asked to be spanked.

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