I'm not sure why I think about these things. Maybe it's a way for me to rationalize why my brain and body have gone haywire or maybe it's just my bored inner geek.
I think humanity is in an epi-genetic shift. I think changes in our DNA can happen in great big leaps but that they first happen in little test batches.
So maybe as a response to our changing environments and threats our genetic code has started to change in order to adapt, and during that change it has decided we need a more sensitive control panel only we (Fibro's) are like the beta version and the bugs haven't been worked out.
It makes a lot of sense to me that as a species our threats have changed from physical survival tactics to a more nuanced and less obvious survival tactic and that our brains would need to be more sensitive to its environment in order to survive and thrive. What better way to do that than make us extra sensitive to all inputs? Sometimes what seems like a brilliant solution is actually a disaster.
I know I'm a total geek and this has absolutely no scientific value, it's just how my mind works. Sometimes this helps me handle the pain a little better. You may be questioning that since essentially I just implied we are evolutions trash pile, but it helps me to make it less personal. Maybe that's ridiculous but you use what you've got and anything that helps is something.
Here's to hoping version 2.0 gets it right.