Humour and autism?

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Im the same way. I tend to get tickled by things that most people think are stupid, like pun's. Sometimes I just think silly things and start laughing....ok so Im a bit loopy .

Perhaps it was Father and his ability to tell funny stories that makes me odd man out. I've always been able to make people laugh. It was safe to get them to laugh WITH me, not AT me. I saw "A Night at the Opera" again recently, and I still laugh out loud. My favorite is W.C. Fields, and his struggles with ordinary objects. (Having his cane over his shoulder, trying to put his hat on, putting it on the end of the cane, and so on ...)

I Like riffing, sarcasm, and irony, and one lliners.

Hi there,
~What Arbie wrote I totally follow; I dislike sarcasm very much. I tend to take it too literally and feel a bit offended by it. People using sarcasm all the time aren't really funny at all; but that is my opinion.
~When people make fun of me, I don't see it, sometimes. Not always bad intented, of course. I choose not to, sometimes, 'cos I don't really know how to act. I'm easely to be tricked and some NT's find that very funny. But hey, I don't care too much about that.
~Some say that a good sence of humour sais something 'bout someone's intelligence but that's depends, I quess, on the type of sence. (?) Also my timing seems to differ from most and that's why I don't laugh well timed when someone tells a joke. Too obvious, mostly but also I have this trait that when something must be done, like laughing at a certain moment, I tend to freeze. I think that's autistic. Must? Now is the time to ........ Do it, now. Block. The topic is humour but this is a nasty trait.
~Think about it, humour is all about timing, nuances, 180 degree turns, reading between the lines and other things and that's stuff we sometimes have difficulties with. Or I have, at least, in day to day live.
~I can laugh at things no one else sees or hears, like the song of a blackbird, always trying a new riddle. Or a bumble-bee, I don't know, horny maybe but flying very clumsy against the chair in our garden. Or it goes from the lavender, makes a clumsy flying loop or circle in the air and then returns to the same flower. It fills my heart with joy. Odd, maybe but being able to do that, to laugh about some tiny things, I think that's the ultimate richness and a definite surplus.
~Come to terms with your autism, you're good the way you are, folks and start laughing again. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

Best of luck to you all,
Ceesjan

This error comes from Hans Asperger himself (he was only talking about one kid too; how many "normal" kids have you seen who aren't funny?).

Don't listen to it, it was one of the many observations that have been proven to be false, [yet some professionals still seem to erroneously hold onto it].

It's like the one, "most adults with [Classic] Autism can't talk!" Most actually can, and adequately too.

I don't know if I'm very good at having people laugh with me as I am having people laugh at me. In high school, used to trip up the stairs, or slip on ice intentionally just to hear people laugh...or people would tease me or say mean things about me, and I'd go along with it. I find self-depreciating humor to be incredibly hilarious a lot of the time =D

I must have a sense of humor just as terrible as yours, I'm laughing out loud just reading these ;D

The Avatars and Nicknames here are proof we have a sense of humor ! !!

I am quite good at sarcasm, I have been known to be fairly funny, my sister is fairly easily amused.

I've got a wide sense of humour from childish through to surreal and black humour. I tend to tell a lot of jokes or make funny observations about things and make people laugh. However, I'm not always good at picking up if someone is being sarcastic with me or trying to play mind games in a pretend funny way.

Monty Python parrot sketch is my typical humour. Dry deadpan and totally surreal.

Looks like we have the same sense of humour! I QI!

I also like Friends, Scrubs, The Simpsons, the funny bits on House and an anime series called Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.

I understand and enjoy sarcasm.

I hate those Hollywood comedy films. With all the slapstick and gross-out humour and a huge overload of unfunny sex references. Stuff like American Pie, Cheaper by the Dozen, Don't Mess with the Zohan... this sort of humour really annoys me, actually, and I have to try and avoid it so I don't spoil other people's enjoyment by getting angry.

one of the first things my cousin and i noted (being new to the forums) was the intelligent, dry wit of most all the posters.

and that's the truth. we loved it.


just my opinion- but since most aspies tend to be high in the IQ area... and tend to like challenges, i would think that it's not that most average jokes/comedy aren't 'funny', it's just not entertaining to us. but, the dryer, wittier things (such as brit stuff like many of you posted), that is probably more of a "draw" for us, and more likely to be found entertaining.

or it could just be that british people are just really freakishly funny.

or that they go around saying, "bum".

although, to be fair, i do understand and laugh at most 'comedy'. i just prefer the dry and witty type.


but yes, i can laugh at golden girls like any old chic.



probably cause i'm sorta becoming an old chic.

Actually, I can't remember a time that I haven't sought out humor.

I did, similar. some person said a joke, I stared like "WTF"; I explained I "get" the joke ans that I don't like it. (or I said "it sucks") the guy (my mom's boyfriend) said it's strong to say "it sucks"

about humor, well I'm a /b/tard (not an EDiot. There's a difference. Many /b/tards hate ED and I can understand why) so you know the type of humor I like! This is where echolalia is fun!

I love dry witty and macabre humour. I'm good at it. The "boys" in my office are always amazed that I have the sense of humour that I do, but I don't find sexist or potty humour funny at all. They seem to think I should think it's funny, but I don't. I don't do body humour jokes and hate slapstick. Oh well, what's a girl to do?

I definitely have a sense of humor. It's very obscure and pretty warped, but I've had people nearly in tears before.