Quote: He also does not stop to eat or go to the bathroom if he is busy, so ignoring his body is extremely easy for him. Sometimes I wonder if his pain/pleasure receptors work at all!
There is definitely a biology to this. When my son was an infant/toddler, I was freaked out because he seemed oblivious to pain. He would crawl into a wall or fall down and just go on like nothing happened (I remember talking to the pediatrician and asking if we should get a neurological evaluation). I was familiar with children and he was my second child so it wasn't a new mother thing. To this day ( he is 10) he really can ignore his hunger until it is absolutely necessary,goes out in the cold weather without a thought of putting on a jacket, rarely complains and is just a " go with the flow" kind of kid. There is now a psychological component to his lack of needs...one suggestion by any kind of maternal figure and he runs the other way. What's a Jewish mother to do?
IHJ--who hopes his one-day wife won't be posting on this board
