Sense of humor?

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I scoffed out loud when I first read that line from the article a while back.

People with AS/autism not having a sense of humor is a popular misconception; like Aspies don't fall in love and get married; or all Aspies posess superior intelligence; or all people with autism are like Rainman; or humans only use 10% of their brain.

Poppycock.

Good fortune,

- Icarus enjoys causing people on the spectrum to laugh...

That's one thing that's bugged me about having AS is not being able to laugh at something that everyone else's laugh at. I get people asking if I'm OK. I do have a sense of humour but I just can't express it through laughter as crazy as that sounds.

I have this problem sporadically; there are times when I laugh out-loud at stuff, but also very often I "laugh" completely internally, the only external manifestation being perhaps a slight smirk on my face or a twinkle in my eye, which is often mistaken for "blank". The sense of humor is still there, but it has trouble finding its way out sometimes.

When I type LOL or use , it represents a genuine feeling of amusement, but rarely am I literally laughing out loud. In fact, it now occurs to me that this is an interesting side effect of this online communication medium; I can't force myself to laugh without sounding like a fake fool, so I get sometimes pegged as not getting it or not having a sense of humor in real life. In this place, I can just type LOL when I mean it, and the message comes through fairly clearly, I think.

Interesting.

Good fortune,

- Icarus is a straightman...

One of my big obsessions happens to be vintage comedy films, especially American 1920s silents. I love Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy. Charley Chase, too. I could go on forever about them....

I am actually quite big on humor and can even write funny stuff. That said, my AS seems to be fairly mild - over the years, I taught myself to function semi-okay in social situations, for example. And also there are some things I don't find funny at all that some people do. Fart jokes, for example - but I thought that was just part of my being a girl. And sometimes someone will think they're being funny, but I find the literal interpretation so disturbing that I can't laugh. Or sometimes someone will be kidding and they'll have to tell me because I think they mean it. And I really, really hate dumb, unskilled humor. Woody Allen is art (well, his classic stuff, at least, which includes most of his films). Really good slapstick is art. Most mainstream sitcoms are plain stupid and not art.

So I'm sort of in-between with the humor thing.

-J.

Bumping 4 year old threads is good for a laugh.


Anyways, my sense of humor is no where near conventional (in fact, according to online quizzes I have no sense of humor!). I laugh if someone mentions a broken arm/lesion. I scowl at the jokes "everyone" laughs at. Everything just seems like a Monty Python or Young Ones episode. The more absurd, the more I laugh.

Oh what again? Another idiot (Elliot) claiming that we don't have a sense of humour?

Give me a break!! More sensationalist newshound BS!

I have a great sense of humour, and just to prove it I'll totally pwn sparkplugloy's post:

(1=yes 0=no)
Sense of humour?:Aspie?
1 : 1
0 : 1
0 : 0
1 : 0

According to an online test, I severely lack sense of humor.

I think my sense of humour is sort of a sense of the ridiculous. Unfortunately there arent as many ridiculous things occuring as I would like at times.. so I can go ages without laughing.

I have my own sense of humor. I joke about stuff all the time like I might say to an aspie they have gone NT because they are changing their avatar or user name or they have moved stuff around in their house, they have taken a different route, etc.


I even say to other people do they have AS because they are doing something aspiesh like this one guy on youtube for example. He was going around policing the place and reporting copyrighted videos to youtube and they finally changed the rule there. Only report it if it's your video someone posted. After all aren't aspies bothered by rule breakers

People don't really get my sense of humour, but I have one. Most of the time.

im famous for my abilities to cause happiness

I understand humour and like satirical and bizarre humour. My father has a wicked sense of humour and we have these bizarre conversations that go on for an hour about things such as: the supreme being actually being a supreme pizza whose word or pizza is spread by the pizza delivery missionaries. At the end of the conversation we figured that if the Israelis and Palestinians knew you could have half and half then there would be peace in the Middle East. All our conversations are like this!

We also changed the words for The Twelve Days of Christmas with the now infamous line among friends that 'on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a foetus in a glass of formaldehyde'.