Asperger's Syndrome - No Sense of Humor

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Things I find funny, other people find simply weird or stupid such as the same thing being repeated over and over. I LOVED You Tube Poops for a short while. It takes a special kind of humor to appreciate You Tube Poops. But what most people find halarious, I find imature, digusting, repulsive and even question the person's state of mind (such as "cute animals exploding" on you tube. That person is seriously deranged.) No one in their right mind finds a meerkat being squished practicaly to death or scalded funny. I know Timon & Pumbaa was a cartoon, but that sort of thing REALLY repulses me, espically with Lion King, Timon, meerkats and Pumbaa being a special intrest. Don't even get me started on Itchy & Stratchy. A LOT of cartoons from the 90's involved Tex Avery style "humor" and I have to wonder if that was an influnce to some phycopaths and people who think it's okay to abuse animals. Most things people find funny I simply find stupid. I personaly never saw the humor in Invader Zim, I just could seriously relate to a lot of the characters and the situtions. I do not find sexual situations funny either. Go ahead and say I have no sence of humor, but frankly Charlotte my dear, I don't give a damb.


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This is probably funny because it's true.

This is something I find halarious:
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The only ones who find exploding animals funny are either teenage boys or people who hate society or who have mental problems or want to shock others.

I've run into morons who think I'm not really autistic (Aspergers) because I have a sense of humor.

Oh really? REALLY? Like, a sense of humor is an exclusionary symptom for the purposes of diagnosis? SINCE WHEN?

I hate it when idiots take information about hardcore profound autistics and apply it to milder cases in a rigid fashion...remeniscent of those with Asperger's. XD And ironically displaying "no sense of humor" which by their logic would paint THEM as autistic.

That's very false. I have a very good sense of humor. it is very unique, for the most part, & a lot of people don't understand my sense of humor, but I still definitely have one, as have most of the people with Asperger's I've met online.

i can not sense humor easily. when someone tells me a joke, or says something to me that they laugh at and expect me to laugh as well, i most often think "well there you go", and i fail to see why it is funny.

the only things i laugh at are my own absurd concepts that i playfully craft about the world i see.

Faulse. =.= An attempt to dislpay methods that one is familior with over others, doesn't proove how the person thinks 100%.

jjstar, this thread annoys me a little. I stopped after this part I quoted. You seemed to reply as if saying their humor stinks when they might not have tried. Alot of Autists get insulted, joked about, and laughed at for their own problems. Autist sees a common method to interact, and uses it, thinking it will work like-wise, yeah? When it doesn't, "Oh oh, I'm such a moron. I'll never fit in."

This reminds me of what I, myself am tired of. I don't even try anymore, unless I really have to. Finally feeling content to socialise with a smile, only to get confusion looks, or the shun treatment.

*Finished annoying you with edits*

Alex's lockdown of The Autism Jolliness thread was hilarious. see my sense of humour is still intact.

The Autism Speaks one you mean? Yeah, I agree. As was the sudden deletion of any thread mentioning the recent censorship (how ironic is that?).

Expect this post to be deleted in 5... 4... 3...

A sandwich walks into a bar - the bartender takes a look at him and says " I'm sorry, but we don't serve food"

If you didn't laugh , you may not have a sense of humor.

I've found that people with AS often try to use humor as a tool to connect with people.

I discovered long ago that my propensity for literal interpretations can be subverted into humor. Since I have gained some skill in knowing what people mean when they don't speak literally, I can often play the literal meaning off of the intended one. But my conceptual leaps are often too arcane so it is not always perceived as funny.

Yup that'd be the one.

No sense of humor, that is so old fashioned way of thinking. . My son is something like PDD_NOS, high functioning ASD or so (not 3 years old yet). He does not understand jokes only, but he also makes jokes and looks with a half guilty/half shy smile to our faces to see if we understand him. He likes to share his fun.

We are doing Floortime therapy, so some serious sillyness is going on at home. I leave him at the daycare and while I say "bye" I poke my finger to my nose and say "eeewww", all NT kids there look at me like surprised, no smiles. Probably thinking this is one crazy lady. My son giggles and puts his finger in his nose as a response. He sucks his thumb, I suck his thumb, too, he giggles extremely and says "no mine" , I say "no mine", goes on like that and we laugh together.

People (not ASDs, Aspergers, but everybody) know what they see and share. Make a joke you laugh at to someone in France, they will not laugh at it. Not all jokes can be funny for everyone, that usually not because if that person is NT or not.

NEver make a joke to a NT kid, never smile, he will also never smile. I am NT and I have a very dry sense of humor, by the way. I honestly find my sense of humor higher quality than others'.

Mimi

There's a kind of "straight man" comedy in satire where the comic deliberately tries to be over serious and over sensible: a social commentary on how supposedly serious and sensible people can actually say and do some ridiculously unhelpful things.

On a TV comedy show, the audience knows that the person is "in character".
In real life though, there has to be some kind of a lead in or affective hint of "I'm only joking" or people get confused. They might get frustrated because they thought that you were trying to tell them some serious information!

Factor in the facial expressions, timing, banter etc, and it can get complicated.
Flattened affect or grinning at the "wrong" time can irritate people, even when the person telling the joke didn't mean to aggravate people. I know a few well meaning people who inadvertently irritate others in these ways. Other people can't tell if these people are being "serious" or not. Issues with social communication can ruin a good joke.

That said, I believe that a lot of extreme humour comes from people with AS traits. E.g.

-Gross-out humor/Toilet humour/Violates social norms

-Puns

-Associative imagery (the visual equivalents of puns)

-Dry satire

-Farce

-Slap-stick

-Parody

-Reductionist/detail focussed/humour that dissects a situation/technical humour making fun of an artistic technique or style

-Humour focussed on inanimate objects, hobbies or machinery


Whether or not someone will get the "joke" depends on the personality and life experiences individual though. I don't think it's possible for every person on Earth to get the same joke. What seems benign to one person can seem highly offensive to someone else.

This is why I don't think that the phrase "You have a good sense of humour." is really specific enough. It really means "You have a sense of humour that I enjoy". There are many flavours of humour. Some people like chocolate ice-cream, others find chocolate ice cream horrible and disgusting. It's a matter of taste (or "lack thereof?).

I think I have a good sense of humor. I don't find a lot of things funny. Like some guy made a joke about little wrenches being used by a dentist and was like that dentist really didn't like him. I went on to say well in implant procedures the wrench is used to tighten the implant. That joke plays on the ignorance of dental procedures.

I've been told often that I take things too literally and miss out of jokes.

I don't seem to fit what is normally said about Aspies and humor. For instance, I laugh at everything, everything is a joke. I guess I'm insensitive like that. I could be in church, and end up giggling through the service because someone may have made a funny sound or something struck me as absurd. I love puns, and sarcasm (but not constant). I can play off a practical joke or slightly esoteric humor...anything that is "serious" can make me laugh, I don't know why. I'd also run into walls as a kid to get laughs. Perhaps my ability to see things as funny is due to me being able to see different meanings of words and such. I laugh like a maniac, kind of fun too

It's true, we have no sense of humour whatsoever, I even watched a whole episode of Family Guy and didn't laugh once