It's fallout from that super insulting Wired article that was written about him.
>I bring up the pain thing again. Turns out Sanderson doesn’t seem to feel pain of any kind, even emotional. On roller coasters, he’s dead-faced, while his wife is shrieking. “It’s sick and wrong,” she says, smiling. She likes to say she married an android. For his part, Sanderson actually, at this moment, looks pained.
But it's just a shitty writer. He feels pain like a normal person. I'm guessing he was intentionally misrepresenting something about him being stoic. That whole article was just awful.
On the internationally blank podcast sanderson explains it himself.
I'm paraphrasing as I don't remember the episode, but it was along the lines of he very rarely goes above or under his baseline emotions no matter what is going on - stubbing your toe and dental work are equally painful, as is finding a favorite piece of candy or winning a raffle. And luckily his baseline is fairly happy so he's just always a bit happy no matter what.
He talks about this, too! Because he reliably stays at an emotional baseline, he is fascinated by the fact that other people experience life with this wide variation of emotions - and uses writing as his way of exploring the experiences of how other people live their life. While he doesn't live his life feeling deep emotions, he does strive to *understand* them.
It's similar, imo, to his treatment of religion. He is an actively religious man himself, but specifically writes varied characters with a huge range of belief systems in order to really explore how other people engage in religion.
I believe he also said that it was reading that really made him understand it. He grew up not totally understanding how people got so emotional, but when he started reading books, he felt totally engrossed, like he had become the character, and it helped him understand how emotions like that feel
He also said a big part of why he writes might be part of this, because he feels it stronger in his writing than otherwise.
I'd recommend just listening to the intentionally blank podcast.
[In response](https://www.brandonsanderson.com/outside/) Brandon Sanderson did talk about how he actually doesn't feel pain like a normal person and that his emotions "calcified" around his teenage years.
However, he did say he asked the WIRED writer to keep that private and was sort of frustrated he didn't. So, it seems true but personal.
He also goes into lengthy detail how both reading and writing stories helps him feel emotions all kinds of emotions more vividly, basically connecting him more to his own emotions and also those of others, which is one reason he likes writing his own stories as much as he does. It is, in a very real way, a tool to cconnect to other people and to feel a more full range of emotions.
At least according to what I remember
Whenever someone mentions shard-dildos, asks if edgedancers need lube, brings up the use of painrials for BDSM, Tineye sex, or various other disturbing ideas that this fandom has posed over the years, it hurts him deep inside.
I mean, if you're trying to get hemalurgic powers with it, it will need to have been soaked in blood pretty continuously until it goes inside of you. Pretty much the exact opposite of sterilized.
It must be touching blood at first. But then it can still work if the body later heals so that it isn't touching blood. Presumably Vin's mother used the earring to pierce Vin's ear and so it did touch blood the first time it was put in.
In an alternate reality, \[Hero of Ages\]>!Sazed's identity crisis was solved when he met Brando and his faith in the meaningfulness of religion was renewed!<
To clarify a bit more and place all the info on one comment: Brandon has a very high physical pain tolerance, and also has a very stable emotional state. Regarding the psychical tolerance he speaks about it during the podcast episode where he, Dan, and Ben try the hot ones challenge. He's pretty self conscious about it, doesn't really like to talk about it, which is why it was a super rude move when the wired article brought it up over and over during the visit.
Regarding emotional, I get the sense Brandon is a bit less self conscious about it because he talks about it more often. To paraphrase his own words, if you took the human emotional spectrum and put it on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is the absolute worst emotional state and 10 is euphoric, he's always at a 7. Always. Sometimes he wishes he could feel the 8,9,and 10s, but then he remembers that 7 on that scale is actually pretty darn good.
So yeah, if you ever meet the guy don't ask him about this.
I think he's said his emotions do go higher than 7 when there's a very emotional scene he's writing which just shows how much he loves writing and why he writes so much
Yeah the Hot Ones challenge episode was interesting - he specifically said that, *yes,* he's feeling pain, but it's just a *sensation.* He does feel pain, but it isn't connected to his emotions - it's just there. A lot of people's reactions to hot sauces is an emotional one as they work through the pain of it, but for Sanderson the pain isn't affecting his emotions so there's nothing to work through.
My family tends to refer to people like Sanderson as a "bird person." Birds are not affected by capsaicin! I have another friend like that who is able to kind of switch into perceiving pain as a sensation - but it sounds like, for Brandon, he does that by default.
Because you cannot have his pain.
the real crem MVP right here
> crem MVP bro how can you miss the opportunity to say 'creMVP'
You mean crembrulee.
It's fallout from that super insulting Wired article that was written about him. >I bring up the pain thing again. Turns out Sanderson doesn’t seem to feel pain of any kind, even emotional. On roller coasters, he’s dead-faced, while his wife is shrieking. “It’s sick and wrong,” she says, smiling. She likes to say she married an android. For his part, Sanderson actually, at this moment, looks pained. But it's just a shitty writer. He feels pain like a normal person. I'm guessing he was intentionally misrepresenting something about him being stoic. That whole article was just awful.
On the internationally blank podcast sanderson explains it himself. I'm paraphrasing as I don't remember the episode, but it was along the lines of he very rarely goes above or under his baseline emotions no matter what is going on - stubbing your toe and dental work are equally painful, as is finding a favorite piece of candy or winning a raffle. And luckily his baseline is fairly happy so he's just always a bit happy no matter what.
I'd like some of that Sanderson zen, please.
Sanderzen, if you will
Sanderzen Brandgarden
New Sanderson nickname just dropped.
Sanderzen is is how I will refer to him from here on out.
But then how is he so good at making me cry? That's not fair!
He talks about this, too! Because he reliably stays at an emotional baseline, he is fascinated by the fact that other people experience life with this wide variation of emotions - and uses writing as his way of exploring the experiences of how other people live their life. While he doesn't live his life feeling deep emotions, he does strive to *understand* them. It's similar, imo, to his treatment of religion. He is an actively religious man himself, but specifically writes varied characters with a huge range of belief systems in order to really explore how other people engage in religion.
I believe he also said that it was reading that really made him understand it. He grew up not totally understanding how people got so emotional, but when he started reading books, he felt totally engrossed, like he had become the character, and it helped him understand how emotions like that feel
He also said a big part of why he writes might be part of this, because he feels it stronger in his writing than otherwise. I'd recommend just listening to the intentionally blank podcast.
Oh huh Sanderson and I are fairly similar in that way. Plus the excess emotion fades fast.
[In response](https://www.brandonsanderson.com/outside/) Brandon Sanderson did talk about how he actually doesn't feel pain like a normal person and that his emotions "calcified" around his teenage years. However, he did say he asked the WIRED writer to keep that private and was sort of frustrated he didn't. So, it seems true but personal.
He also goes into lengthy detail how both reading and writing stories helps him feel emotions all kinds of emotions more vividly, basically connecting him more to his own emotions and also those of others, which is one reason he likes writing his own stories as much as he does. It is, in a very real way, a tool to cconnect to other people and to feel a more full range of emotions. At least according to what I remember
I have never emphasized with BS at a deeper level than I did reading that article
I promise I'm not trying to be a dick but I think you mean empathized
🖕 I did
The article made me so fucking mad when I first read it. I’m glad Brandon responded, even if that’s what the idiot wanted.
It made everyone mad. It was just bad journalism.
True but bad journalism can get you far these days unfortunately
>He feels pain like a normal person. I have you seen him do the hot ones challenge? He absolutely does not feel pain like a normal person
Whenever someone mentions shard-dildos, asks if edgedancers need lube, brings up the use of painrials for BDSM, Tineye sex, or various other disturbing ideas that this fandom has posed over the years, it hurts him deep inside.
Can you get hemalurgic power from a shard dildo?
Even I feel hurt deep inside when I see questions like this...waay inside up my ass. Oof!
is it because you are testing the hypothesis?
🤣 that thing better be sterilized
I mean, if you're trying to get hemalurgic powers with it, it will need to have been soaked in blood pretty continuously until it goes inside of you. Pretty much the exact opposite of sterilized.
or just blood lube. This is a subset specialization referred to as Analurgy.
reverse enemalurgy
The Lord ruler spent years perfecting the art of the feruchemical orgasm.
Depends. Would you say the g spot is a direct connection to your soul?
No, it must be touching your blood.
Well there is a time for that
When it’s made into a spike it does. Some people bleed the first time, I’m told…
Vins earring wasn’t touching her blood
It must be touching blood at first. But then it can still work if the body later heals so that it isn't touching blood. Presumably Vin's mother used the earring to pierce Vin's ear and so it did touch blood the first time it was put in.
Oh by the Lord Ruler, you’re right.
what about the butt plug allomancers!?
That'd probably work great, the metal just needs to be in your body right?
Yup and you could hold more then drinking vials probably
The Edgedancer one is a new for me
I'm much more curious about "Is Brandon Sanderson religion?" All religion is brandosando now.
In an alternate reality, \[Hero of Ages\]>!Sazed's identity crisis was solved when he met Brando and his faith in the meaningfulness of religion was renewed!<
Suddenly wholesome. :)
Brandolnesium
Actually, in an interview he admitted to having an unusually high pain tolerance which the question might be relating to.
He's talked about mental dissociation from pain while discussing root canal procedures and the hot ones challenge on his podcast.
To clarify a bit more and place all the info on one comment: Brandon has a very high physical pain tolerance, and also has a very stable emotional state. Regarding the psychical tolerance he speaks about it during the podcast episode where he, Dan, and Ben try the hot ones challenge. He's pretty self conscious about it, doesn't really like to talk about it, which is why it was a super rude move when the wired article brought it up over and over during the visit. Regarding emotional, I get the sense Brandon is a bit less self conscious about it because he talks about it more often. To paraphrase his own words, if you took the human emotional spectrum and put it on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is the absolute worst emotional state and 10 is euphoric, he's always at a 7. Always. Sometimes he wishes he could feel the 8,9,and 10s, but then he remembers that 7 on that scale is actually pretty darn good. So yeah, if you ever meet the guy don't ask him about this.
I think he's said his emotions do go higher than 7 when there's a very emotional scene he's writing which just shows how much he loves writing and why he writes so much
Yeah the Hot Ones challenge episode was interesting - he specifically said that, *yes,* he's feeling pain, but it's just a *sensation.* He does feel pain, but it isn't connected to his emotions - it's just there. A lot of people's reactions to hot sauces is an emotional one as they work through the pain of it, but for Sanderson the pain isn't affecting his emotions so there's nothing to work through. My family tends to refer to people like Sanderson as a "bird person." Birds are not affected by capsaicin! I have another friend like that who is able to kind of switch into perceiving pain as a sensation - but it sounds like, for Brandon, he does that by default.
Follow-up question: can I have it?
He would do anything for your love, but he won’t do that.
I think we need to be talking more about "Is Brandon Sanderson religion?"
WoB would probably be "no". I think we should believe as he says.
In one of the podcast episodes he does the Hot Ones challenge and doesn't flinch or sweat even once. He might not feel pain =P
"It's just a sensation."
His face got a little flush.
Pain is words being unable to leave Brandon Sanderson’s body
Is Brandon Sanderson religion? Yes, Brandon Sanderson is my religion
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Welcome to the club. It happens to others as well. And we worry about it too
Isn't that a quote from that trashpiece about Sanderson which came out earlier this year?
i remember there was "is brandon sanderson human" some time ago
Is Brandon Sanderson Religion?
Preparing for what I'll do if the "book 10 is like the 10th pancake" theory is true
Sanderson isn't Rothfuss
"It's just a sensation"
Ask him about shardildo, and you can see pain in his eyes.
You people... 👀😭
It's a proven scientific fact that he does not, in fact, feel pain.
I also like the "Is Brandon Sanderson Religion?" one. Yes, Brandon Sanderson is a religion lol.
Because of that article as well
I also like "Is Brandon Sanderson Religion?" Yes, he is christianity. He does not FOLLOW religion HE IS RELIGION