I used to basically never experience this, to the point where I wasn’t sure if other people talking about their heads hurting were being metaphorical, but I started experiencing it a year or two ago when I ran up against seriously trying to do math research. But there were aversions in play there.
In general I suspect I’ve learned to avoid putting my mind in whatever mode causes brain-hurt and I get my thinking done in other ways.
I’m similar here, I only had it once when I was in a team math competition, and I was like “Oh wow, I have an actual headache centring on my temples, that’s what people are talking about all the time.”
I used to basically never experience this, to the point where I wasn’t sure if other people talking about their heads hurting were being metaphorical, but I started experiencing it a year or two ago when I ran up against seriously trying to do math research. But there were aversions in play there.
In general I suspect I’ve learned to avoid putting my mind in whatever mode causes brain-hurt and I get my thinking done in other ways.
I’m similar here, I only had it once when I was in a team math competition, and I was like “Oh wow, I have an actual headache centring on my temples, that’s what people are talking about all the time.”