What is an unusual sense of humour?

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As for me, I'm not Jewish in any way, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate their brand of humor.

I only know one aspie joke:

The boss was giving public acknowledgement of the outstanding performance of his aspie employee, congratulating him on his ability to think outside the box. The aspie looks at the boss in all sincerity and asks, "What box are you talking about?"

u all are autistic hahahahaha


just kidding



thats a messed up sense of humor

I do have an odd sense of humor. I have been accused by NTs of having no sense of humor whatsoever as i don't understand their jokes. Also i am American but could never get through an episode of Friends, so i saw no humor in it nor could it hold my attention nor understand its appeal. I found other shows mentioned in this thread to be humorous and likeable.

And in the room next door was a body of pathologists having their convention.

my sense of humor is very grim-dark and borders on sociopathic in its nature. Years of mental abuse and neglect have caused my mind to cope with the horrors of the real word by laughing such things. A good example would be the time I fell down 2 flights of carpeted steps. It scared my mother senseless but I was laying in a broken heap laughing my ass off! I tend not to make jokes in public or share my humor with others. I have been told I belong in a mental ward for it by my family many a time.

I don't get it.

You mean...its all Chinese to you?

I have an apparently odd sense of humour that I cannot quite understand myself.

After some amount of dissection I find a lot of it relates to the ridiculousness of personification of inanimate objects.

For example, I find phrases such as "The lift, of course, just has to stop on every single floor", or "It looks like it wants to rain but cannot really decide when to" as absolutely hilarious. Why? I believe it is the personification of weather and inanimate objects.

Often I find words that others take as they are, as having hilarious contradictions in them.
If you pardon the example from a non-English language, but the Japanese word 技量 (giryo), for example. Literally it means ability or competency. If you look at the characters it literally says "technique amount". The hilarious part to me, which is apparently esoteric, is the fact that this particular word meaning "amount" has the suggestion of non-quantifiability (although not strictly used so). So for example, like an amount of water, or an amount of pudding, or amount of air. Whereas techniques are obviously separate, quantifiable entities. Somehow treating them as a non-quantifiable 'amount' is ridiculously funny to me.

These kind of subtle contradictions make me laugh ridiculously whereas most around me, even upon explanation, do not quite get it.
I am not sure if this is a side effect of Aspergers or just a peculiar view of the world.