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Mdyar
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16 Aug 2010, 5:32 pm

My co workers laugh a lot with me , and they tell me I'm quite funny .

I could get my mother into the 'bent over double position' , and she would tell me "to stop it !" :lol:



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16 Aug 2010, 5:48 pm

I don't know. I try to be funny but I don't always know if it comes out right or people get the joke.


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16 Aug 2010, 6:52 pm

People used to think that I was funny, but I felt phony the whole time and really felt uncomfortable doing it, so I eventually quit it. Now I'm a very serious person, people wonder why I'm so serious.



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16 Aug 2010, 7:23 pm

I'm funny when I'm comfortable but usually in a crowd I'm too reserved to say anything that will cause me to be the center of attention.

My mother calls me funny but means it like odd - like "you know, she's...funny"



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16 Aug 2010, 7:46 pm

I'm sarcastic and honest and people find it fun. I also like to imitate and make sounds/effects.


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16 Aug 2010, 9:06 pm

Ive found my sense of humor to be the only way of starting a conversation with other my whole life. Before i knew i had AS i thought it was normal to be the class clown to atract friends but now i know it was a coping method.



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16 Aug 2010, 9:22 pm

i am a *total* ham. people don't laugh at everything i say or do, but it's like love - you WILL strike out, but if you keep on trying you will get it eventually.

sometimes it takes a while to get used to a group dynamic, but trial and error works. i offend people, bother them, annoy them, but also occasionally entertain them. i even make an ass of myself, but i removes the whole question of laughing AT vs. laughing WITH.

this is part of why i am best in big groups and not very good at one-on-one. this style of joking is overwhelmingly larger-than-life and gets ona person's nerves if they want a quiet chat.... it is also a big fail in job interviews.


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16 Aug 2010, 9:44 pm

People tend to find me funny due to my mannerisms, and I have a rather dry wit.



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16 Aug 2010, 9:56 pm

Yes - usually unintentionally.



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16 Aug 2010, 11:42 pm

I can be unintentially funny, saying something completely unexpected or being socially awkward or physically awkward. I used to get seriously embarrassed by this but now I enjoy it and laugh along. Some people find it cute or endearing.

The only times I'm intentially funny is when I remark on an absurdity. I am droll and witty and a tad nerdy. Most people don't get my humour, though. But, when they do, it's pretty damn cool 8)



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16 Aug 2010, 11:49 pm

Sometimes, but more often than not my sense of humor is too strange or based on inside jokes only a small minority would understand. :?



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17 Aug 2010, 12:30 am

I can be funny at times if I'm in the mood to be and the situation is good for it. I often don't understand a lot of other people's humor though! My sense of humor is based on using logic to make fun of figures of speech and idioms, make parodys of things like TV commercials, situational jokes, and I can do some good impressions! I have at times been waiting for an appointment some where and occasionally I will talk to some one and the conversation will turn to joking around. A number of times I did not realize other people were listening and laughing at what I was joking about. It was a bit of a surprise!! most of the time I would rather not have an audiance unless I have something important to say! when I was younger , I found that if I could get people to laugh with me, it was much better than them laughing at me for me being different or strange to people...NT's! I had no idea I was on the spectrum growing up and was unaware I was any different from anyone else until my teens! Other times I'm compleatly serious and humorless!



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17 Aug 2010, 5:08 am

Hmm. Maybe someone could help me enlighten a theory Ive had.

Im NT with an AS best friend. I keep trying to figure him out as he tries to figure me out and it keeps landing us in some odd situations. Thankfully we both find it entertaining rather than frustrating..

Early on in our friendship I noticed he seemed to get a kick out of me laughing. I'm an easy laugher and can also be easily lost in a total gigglefit. No matter if I chuckled at him or at what he said, me laughing triggers his stand up comedian gene, he will at times stretch whatever joke or funny thing said or done till its a dead horse and then beat it a bit afterwards - just to keep me laughing - or so it seems.

After reading about Aspergers, I wondered if this is a trait of his, possibly that due to uncertainty of body language and such there is one feature that feels 100% as positive feedback to him - laughter. And that this is why he strives towards it? :) To me, its a pleasure either way. And after years of knowing one another I find it adorable the way he peeks in my direction after dropping a joke, anticipating my reaction.

And yes, that IS cute. <3



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17 Aug 2010, 5:30 am

Moog wrote:
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Moog wrote:
Yes.


:lol: Oh, Moog! You're a riot!


I wonder if you are being sarcastic.

Either way, thanks. :)


It does have strong sarcastic undertones, but I did genuinely find it funny, too. :P



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17 Aug 2010, 5:55 am

Thellie wrote:
Early on in our friendship I noticed he seemed to get a kick out of me laughing. I'm an easy laugher and can also be easily lost in a total gigglefit. No matter if I chuckled at him or at what he said, me laughing triggers his stand up comedian gene, he will at times stretch whatever joke or funny thing said or done till its a dead horse and then beat it a bit afterwards - just to keep me laughing - or so it seems.

After reading about Aspergers, I wondered if this is a trait of his, possibly that due to uncertainty of body language and such there is one feature that feels 100% as positive feedback to him - laughter. And that this is why he strives towards it? :) To me, its a pleasure either way. And after years of knowing one another I find it adorable the way he peeks in my direction after dropping a joke, anticipating my reaction.

And yes, that IS cute. <3


Clowning is definitely one of my main weapons when I'm with people......and yes it does have less of an ambiguous feedback than a lot of social gestures do. As long as you can tell the difference between a belly laugh and a throat laugh then you know which jokes worked and which fell flat. It's even more so in the performing arts......you can play music and they'll just applaud by default, but with stand-up comedy, they won't force a laugh if you haven't amused them. So yes, I think it's quite possible that your friend has tapped into comedy because it's a social tool with clear, immediate feedback. It's also a good way of feeling really close to people, there's something about collective laughter that cuts through a lot of the drivel.

I was with a lady who got the giggles the other night......a few years ago I'd have thought it must be me that was amusing her, and I would have started feeding the fire with wisecracks, but this one is rather special, like you, she wasn't laughing at me or with me, she was just laughing. :lol: It's amazing - the whole laughter process seems to be internal for her, as if she's got a built-in comedy show in her head......I've got one too but I've learned to keep it reasonably secret, so that I don't make people think I'm weird. And because I knew that, I was able to provide a foil for her giggling, so that the crowd wouldn't think she was weird (imagine the difference between sitting alone giggling, and giggling with an attentive friend who is also giggling), and of course I don't think she's weird at all, I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and I still giggle when I remember it. Never saw anything like it before from anybody who doesn't use alcohol or reefer.



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17 Aug 2010, 6:13 am

:P

Im just cheerful. When others are serious-faced, I have a smirk or a grin somewhere. Where others smile, I giggle or laugh. Where others laugh, I stop making sounds and just shake in this super-sonic, "omg she is shaking in laughter so hard it must strike out on richters scale" giggles.. that usually end with me not having any mascara left.

Thanks for that response:)

I guess it could be Im right, thats its a pure and immediate feedback that doesnt take too much analysing to "understand" or to be certain of.

I'd call it a charming trait anyway, most people appreciate someone that can make them laugh. Laughing makes you feel good too. :)