Does anybody ever think your funny when your being serious?

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25 Sep 2007, 7:46 pm

I have had it happen both ways. It is FUNNY, because my basic joke repertoire is only like 5 jokes. Of course, I DO have thousands of anecdotes, etc.... Helen is certainly right. NT comedy can be relatively simple.

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25 Sep 2007, 8:16 pm

This happens to me all the time. Sometimes it's really annoying -like when you're mad and people are laughing because they think what you said was hallarious.

Or when they won't exsplain how what you did was funny.

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25 Sep 2007, 8:29 pm

Irulan wrote:

On the opposite - it happened to me quite a lot of times that when I was joking or at least I was making an attempt to joke, people were sure I was serious; rude and coarse. It's because I don't modulate my voice too much and its tone is rather monotonous.

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25 Sep 2007, 9:03 pm

All the time. I don't really try to make jokes, I just think of things to say.

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25 Sep 2007, 9:51 pm

Has this happened to you - you say something you think is interesting, and the other person just laughs because they think it's too crazy to REALLY think about?

Like, I'm always saying things like, "What if when you looked in the mirror, the mirror told your thoughts so everyone could hear them? Society would fall apart." I mean it to be a philosophical discussion or something (ok, not a HUGE one, but you know...), but usually the other person just laughs.

I don't know if they think I'm joking or if they just don't want to discuss it...

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25 Sep 2007, 9:58 pm

Adrie wrote:

I have that happen to me too, the other day I asked my friend what would you do if you grew an extra arm, would you cut it off, would you try to hide it, would you be happy or sad? Or I'll ask what if there was a day where people who passed on came back to life to visit, not like bad ghosts or anything just relatives you miss, would you take as many sleep drugs as possible to avoid that day, or would you greet them? People just laugh at me, or they think im so cute for thinking of weird things like that!

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25 Sep 2007, 10:21 pm

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The other day I was volunteering at this place, and It was the first time I did it, and one of the workers was on the phone, and I was like question, why do you smile when you are talking on the phone, their never going to see you? She laughed, everything I said serious, seems to make people laugh. Growing up people would love to hang with me, because they would think I was a comedian.

Like when I said oh one my arm is bigger then the other, she laughed, or when I was like helping this girl with a puzzle, I stopped and pointed to what I did and said look how much I accomplished, she laughed, it's like um thats suppose to be funny? I don't get people. It happens to me alll the time, like I'm always serious, but everybody think its cute or funny, does this happen to anybody else?

I always have this happen to me.
One time when I was watching a programme on tv about someone who had been murdered I said to my mother "I wonder what the killer did with the body...". She laughed and so did others that were over at my house and I said "I'm serious", and they continued to laugh

Anothet time my cat was out in the rain and I said to my mother "should I let the cat inside?". Mother said..."No, he likes to get wet" and I said "No he doesn't" and then she laughed at me

I'm confused when this happens because I am not trying to be funny.

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25 Sep 2007, 11:13 pm

It could be a disparity in IQ's. I've read that when there's big gaps in IQ between two people, communication starts to seriously break down.

Also, it could be AS.

But yeah, this happens to me a lot, and it often makes me mad.

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26 Sep 2007, 5:26 am

Several years ago, I remember, I was making conjectures (as a joke, it wasn't serious) at presence of one girl that maybe our computers became self-aware like Skynet and we didn't even suspect that there was a new, sinister electronic life planning how to get rid of people while we didn't realize what its game was and that girl looked at me and asked: "Do you really believe that a thing like that is possible"? :lol:

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26 Sep 2007, 10:38 am

When I tell jokes people think I'm being serious. When I'm being serious people think I'm joking. I'll make a joke and someone will respond, "Really? I didn't know about that." or "Seriously?"

To that my response is always, "No, I'm joking." Or something similar.

So then I'll say something that is true, like "I saw a shaman for an exorcism when I was younger." or "There's a rabbi I know of who substituted a joint for each cup of wine on Pesach." and nobody will believe me. At that point I'll have to go to great lengths to convince them even though I frequently assert to people around me that if asked whether or not I'm joking I will always tell the truth. In fact even when I'm not asked, if someone accepts a joke as a fact I'll tell them not to.

edit: Irulan, things like that happen to me a lot but most frequently with people who don't know me very well.

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26 Sep 2007, 7:38 pm

Most of the time, people think I'm too serious. However, I occasionally commit a faux pas that will make people laugh at me.

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