Why are they laughing?

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22 Jan 2012, 8:24 pm

Whether or not it was intentional, the sLaughterhouse remark came across as a joke to the NT people.
I think that is the most likely explanation..

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22 Jan 2012, 8:29 pm

I haven't watched the bit with the slaughterhouse comment, but going by what I have watched I'd venture that she intended her comment to be funny. As League_Girll says, Temple Grandin has a sense of humour and as I've already said, she knows how to use it to good effect in her talks.

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22 Jan 2012, 8:30 pm

dianthus wrote:

infinitenull wrote:

People think I am joking when I say very direct things all the time. They think it makes me bold or something.

I get that a lot too. It doesn't give me the impression they are listening though, it makes me think they are not paying attention, like their minds are going off on a silly tangent unrelated to the discussion. It makes me feel impatient, like when will they stop laughing so we can get on with things?

I think for someone on the spectrum this would be true... a funny joke could be distracting, it could cause the mind to go off on a tangent...

NTs probably learn better when something is funny, it wouldn't distract them as much

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22 Jan 2012, 8:34 pm

Marcia wrote:

She does emphasise that she is being serious, but the laughter isn't malicious or obnoxious.

I found it quite obnoxious.

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22 Jan 2012, 10:18 pm

It was clearly a misunderstood, she is right at what she is saying but it really sounded like she wanted to make it sound funny, maybe because she walked like she was leaving(or the way she said it? I don't know), I would have laughed too because when someone makes a joke and no one laughs he feels uncomfortable. I don't know if she made that on purpose or she thought they didn't believe her.

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23 Jan 2012, 12:20 am

At the dating thing they were laughing because of "he should find a girl at a computer convention" and you don't find too many teenage girls at computer conventions.

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23 Jan 2012, 12:55 am

Embroglio wrote:

At the dating thing they were laughing because of "he should find a girl at a computer convention" and you don't find too many teenage girls at computer conventions.

Lol, you are right, I didn't notice it, maybe because I'm a girl and programmer so I forget it :lol:

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