Asperger's Syndrome - No Sense of Humor

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Weapons of Choice video......now THAT is comedy , Walken is such a bizarre sight

Balki / Well of course NOT , dont be raaaaa-diculous !

Larry / I never thought I would say this but could you talk the way you normally do ?

Larry.......How many rivers have you crossed ?
Balki........Cousin !
Larry........How many rivers have you crossed , IN America ?
Balki.......None
Larry......As in zero , you have not crossed any rivers in America ?

Hawkeye Pierce is my hero. I crack witty and wise daily to keep myself laughing. If I wasn't laughing, I'd be screaming.

I have a sense of humour. It's just not the racy type, that most people, 20 and older have. I do have a sense of humour, though.

Wilson: You faked... cancer?
House: It was an outpatient procedure. I was curious.
Wilson: Are you curious about... heroin?
House: Not since last year's Christmas party.

And that typical Wilson "I can't believe it" look.

It's the best!

And yea, I have a sense of humor.

False. I'm a textbook case of Asperger's and my mom always tells me I have a great sense of humor.

i have no sense of humor. i see things that make me laugh, but no one else understands why i laugh ,and my reactions to what makes me laugh are not neurologically describable as "humorous" in the sense that i have learned that people generally experience.

i can laugh my brains out in a sitting of people who are all stoney faced and concerned as to whether i may be having a breakdown, and on the other hand, i remain unaffected in any way in a gathering of people who are all laughing themselves to tears.

i am not them an they are not me and our senses of humor are on each side of the sea.
it is like i am on the shore on the other side of a gulf that is between me and everyone else.

i care not to try to explain why i am laughing. it is my own private hilarity that wriggles and shakes my body in uncontrolled delirium of mirth.

if someone else suddenly understood, then it would probably dampen my euphoria because i would think "god! now i have a passenger!".

i can not make sharp turns in my mind with cargo aboard.

I may have said this before (10 pages I'm not rechecking).

I think the claim of no sense of humor with AS is that we typically run afoul of a lot of "social humor" that we cannot process.

Someone says something in a threatening tone which is somehow supposed to be a joke. If we don't know the person well enough, we might respond as if it's a real threat. This is tricky because I know some people will make "veiled threats" so they can defend their statement by claiming they were only joking.

Likewise, we might try to mimic such humor only to come across as rude and threatening.

We have a sense of humor, but it's not very effective in this area, and so we might come across to people as not having a "sense of humor" because we don't get their jokes.

I'd say false. Hell, I often attribute my sense of humor being the ONLY thing that kept me sane during my entire run from K to 12.

As for my style, I'd say I was more of the zany type as a child/tween, but upon entering adulthood, I feel as though I've adopted my maternal grandfather's dry humor. Prime example of that: once, during an ITV class I was taking with a group of fellow college students, the feed got disconnected and we got the test pattern and 'doooooooo' noise. I said out loud, 'Gee, it's gonna be one of those days', and the class found it hilarious for some reason.

Usagi1992

I have an decent sense of humor, but it took a long time to develop.

Generally, I would say that it depends of the person because not all autistic person are the same. Beside this, I don't have a "good" sense of humor because I don't understand why something is funny. However, some words or expression make me smile when nobody find them funny...

Some aspies have no humour, but that amounts for some NT's as well (especially if they are members of organisations with many letters). It is more usual with aspies though that they have unusual and inappropriate humour which is rather disgusting people than making them happy, like joking about rape, genocide, suicide, cancer and other "heavy" topics. It seems to be an "aspie male" thing to try to cherish in political incorrectness, thinking that racist slurs or genital references are funny just because they are shocking to society.

Not all aspie males are like that, but it's a noticeable minority.

I don't know if I have any humour. I could find outrageousness funny.