CuddlySadist
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So that would be a YES ... what you describe is NOT a degree of intensity ... it's a totally different touch receptor. Sensory nerve endings include: Light Touch, Deep Pressure (or Hard Touch), vibration, cool, hot cold, ... there might even be a couple I don't recall ... or newly discovered. I infer that she Alandra still has a little bit of light touch sensation, and I can only deduce that still might exist on the periphery where the underlying tissues haven't been deprived of oxygen for too long &/or haven't been directly subject to clamping because it's on the tippy tip tip and the clamp can't hang on w/o more meat under it. So, if she's lost "soft touch" that equates to permanent damage to those specific nerve endings. It COULD also represent accomodation of those nerve endings not to fire off a sensory signal until it has met a higher threshold ... which would be an adaption to frequent very hard pressure ... as opposed to destruction of those nerve endings. But this would be equivalent to changing light touch nerve endings to deep touch nerve endings. So it works out to about the same thing. quote:
ORIGINAL: KnightofMists desensitization can be at only a specific intensity... for example... my alandra has little sense to soft touch but the more hard touch has not changed
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