[jonawesomegreen]

I'm super surprised that the fellow who cannot feel pain was able to make it through childhood without very serious injuries. As the article mentioned things as simple and teething would be a very different experience without pain.

[masklinn]

He did not (well unless you consider the threshold to serious injuries at losing a limb I guess). Looking up Steven Pete and assuming there probably aren't two 30-something pain-insensitive Steven Pete out there brings up http://www.thefactsofpainlesspeople.com/Steve.html which notes that "Visits to the Emergency Room and long hospital stays were quite frequent for my brother and I." and a number of other injuries-related notes.

They were lucky, apparently their parents (both he and his brother are pain-insensitive) were highly aware of the risks, observant and diligent, and drilled them on safety especially with respect to infections.

The article notes that Steven Pete's congenital analgesia was discovered after his parents found him "chewing on [his] tongue" which I assume is to be interpreted more or less literally (though at 4 months old hopefully without much damage)

[gwern]

Early in the article, it mentions he almost chewed off his tongue, which sounds pretty serious to me, and towards the end it mentions, "Pete’s left leg is permanently damaged from years of injuries he couldn’t feel, and he lives with the anxiety that he could overlook a severe illness, such as appendicitis, whose major symptom is pain."