Is it common for aspies to smile at inappropriate times?

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I still remember how funny it was.
It was like the greatest drug trip imaginable - not that I've done many drugs.
I remember picturing my Trinidadian friend sweeping a floor.
I just about peed myself laughing about that vision for about a month.
She wasn't even there but it's something I pictured randomly.

I remember my friend was really freaked out hoping it would go away.
I must have been really annoying. I can't blame him.

You can't measure "proprietary"

Two separate bosses have had the nerve to ask me "why are you smiling?"

Seriously I don't think it was "inappropriate" to smile at that time. And the times they smiled and I didn't, I didn't have the nerve to ( *cross examine or scrutinize*) their every slightest action and statement, just because I didn't like or understand it.

Power struggle


"Pick your battles" is a good statement but some precious lil "people" pick *all* the battles

They are so annoying

I don't think I've had a stroke but I laugh at really strange and unlikely things that most people don't. I mean laughing A LOT til I get a pain.

e.g. we were watching Independence Day last week and there was an alien rushing towards some people who were trying to get away. There was a dog running around and a girl ran out to save the dog instead of saving herself. My husband said 'f**k the dog!' meaning 'don't worry about the dog, save yourself.' I couldn't stop laughing and kept saying 'f**k the dog' to him. I'm still laughing.

Yes I like the fact that when something makes me laugh, I can't stop laughing. Like a baby.

When my husband said 'f**k the dog!' it sounded like he was giving them an instruction about how stop the aliens

That's usually why I write fanfic and other stories: to make myself laugh because life can be pretty grim.

smiling can be appeasement behavior (i mean no harm) laughter is a sort of "social releaser" when anxiety gets uncomfortable but hostility and anger is unsafe or inappropriate.

I'm not much of a smiler, but I've often laughed in inappropriate situations, either because I didn't know how to process something (mostly when younger) or because of thinking about something that amuses me, which is embarrassing if you're around people who aren't trying to be funny.

I find that I smile or laugh at inappropriate times.

When I was a kid I would get an urge to smile at inappropriate times, and I mean a physical urge where my mouth muscles tried to go into a smile and I had to stop myself.

I remember when I was about 13 my mum told me and my brother that my grandmother was in hospital, and I felt shocked and worried but when I looked at my brother and he looked at me (as if to non-verbally exchange shock) I felt a smile trying to form, even though I didn't want to smile. I think it was just a nervous reaction. I grew out of it and now when I hear bad news I don't get that urge any more.

Also as a kid I used to laugh when an adult was shouting (like a teacher or someone else's parent), not when shouting at me but just when shouting at other kids I was with. I was very sensitive to voice tone and volume and so I think the anxiety caused me to laugh, like a nervous reaction. It took all my strength nit to laugh. Like when me and my cousin were goofing around and his mother came into the room and yelled at us, I had to hide my mouth so she couldn't see me trying not to laugh. The same at school when the teacher would be yelling at the class, I'd put my elbows on the desk and put my chin in my hands discreetly hiding my mouth so they couldn't see me laughing. I'm glad I grew out of that too.

I spent half my childhood covering my mouth due to inappropriate smiling and my mom getting annoyed or angry by it.

I still feel the urge to smile or laugh at inappropriate times. I think it’s just how my face reacts when i get insecure, i smile/laugh.

NTs think i’m a very happy person with an extremely bad humour, when in fact i’m drowning in anxiety

I smile at inappropriate times. I fail to smile at appropriate times. Sometimes I laugh when I shouldn't, other times I'm not laughing when I should. I'm not sure how much of it is me failing to process what's going on in real time. It could also be that I am in my head a lot and not always paying attention to what's happening, rather, lost in my thoughts. It could be I have a weird sense of humor. It's likely a mix of a lot of stuff. I dunno. It happens though.