Asperger's Syndrome - No Sense of Humor

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12 Apr 2011, 9:27 pm

When I was a teenager I was pretty good at my MAD magazine imitation of Archie Bunker. The intent of the skit was to make fun of racists but my imitation was so good that people thought I must actually be a racist. So I ended up losing some friends. I could never get over the fact that my jokes were usually thought of as being at the expense of other people or even myself. On the otherhand professional actors like Carol OConner get away it because they are paid to act so people do not believe that they are real racists but rather that they are only pretending. So that is probably why I am so serious most of the time.



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28 Nov 2011, 2:59 am

I am not humor impaired at all, and no, I don't find other people's misfortunes funny, generally speaking. ( a little mishap can be funny, but a serious injury would never be funny) However, my family is full of Aspies and we used to like to park ( Ok I lied, we landed our space vehicle) out in front of Blockbuster Videos to watch all the people who would try to pull open a door that was marked "push" just because most doors shaped like that *usually* pulled open. People would repeatedly slam the door on themselves. Sometimes they would drop all their videos or spill a drink in shock. No one got hurt and we howled like wolves at a full moon. It was really that funny. Words can't do this much justice. lol It was a lot like watching candid camera or punk'd.

Another exception to the rule is church. You're supposed to be quiet and reverent at church, right? Well, once during a funeral ( for someone I had never met, but my grandmother asked me to go. ), a lady was singing really badly and my uncle and I were stifling laughter. I knew better than to look at him to see if he "noticed", but I did anyway. Once we made eye contact, we were both bent over and silently laughing so hard we were shaking and had tears in our eyes, pretending to be praying because it was so funny. I was trying to be quiet and had to pretend like I was crying to cover up the fact that I was laughing. I get it: Inappropriate right? But isn't having a person who can't sing doing a solo inappropriate too? lol See? I am abstract and empathetic: I see this person's inability to sing as a misfortune...lol After we left church, I could finally spout out the funny thoughts that were going through my mind: "Please people, keep the microphone away from Myrtle ( age 70) on karaoke night!" "We need more cowbell" etc. Ok, we also compared Myrtle to the grim reaper because she was wearing her choir outfit with a hood. Oh and I almost forgot: They were telling that story about the deceased requesting to be buried with a fork, and comparing heaven to dessert, etc. ( yeah, I get it) Seriously, I was thinking about that fork floating around in the coffin with a dried out skeleton and some dust and thought that was funny too, I mean, how long would the dead person be able to hold onto a fork? ( and the earthlings think we are odd?) I probably wouldn't have thought it was AS funny if I hadn't already been laughing about the lady with a croaking voice singing out of tune. I did not think it was funny at all that someone died and actually humor is often my reaction to beat down negative thoughts and emotions.

You might see these confessions and think: No empathy. It would be so untrue. I believe that I feel more empathy than the earthlings and it's completely genuine. This is another subject though...lol



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28 Nov 2011, 9:25 am

i have no sense of humor much.

i generally say things that are simple but incorrectly relevant to what is being asked, and that is my way of providing myself with internal humor which few can understand.

i am rarely serious, but that does not mean i am funny. it means to most of the world that i am out of touch with reality, and i like the expressions on their faces when i say something "off key", because i feel that i know something that they do not, and that is that i am not serious.

obviously, this post is serious, and i am getting tired of being serious. it is a chore to be serious.



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09 Dec 2011, 12:33 pm

I'm good with my Christopher Walken impressions, and like to pull random phrases from his skits and movies, but I usually end up creeping out those who are unfamiliar with Walken. Most of my humor comes off as creepy.

Never gets old seeing people walk into sliding doors....it's not entirely injurious, and what's really funny is seeing people try to walk through the glass BETWEEN the sets of sliding doors. Maybe it's the way it looks narrower, that people think "oh, it must be a door!" Nope, pay attention. People who don't pay attention to whether a pane of glass says "DOOR" in black and yellow never fail to amuse me.

Church was mentioned. The music can be pretty terrible, especially if one is tonally inclined. Sometimes I think our family's New Holland hayb baler would be a more welcome addition. I usually find one or two people after service who say "what in the HECK was going on?" then we giggle over it for a bit.



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09 Dec 2011, 5:35 pm

I have a great sense of humor.
It's just not slapstick, perverted, or bodily-function related.
That puts me in a minority.

I can lie extremely well.


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09 Dec 2011, 5:37 pm

I would never in a million years think anything body related was funny. D= lol



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09 Dec 2011, 5:55 pm

"Unless it's at the expense of someone else's misfortune? 8O"

What the HELL is funny about anyone's misfortune? Nothing! That's what! :evil:

The mere suggestion is stupid and ignorant.

FALSE!

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FAIL!


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09 Dec 2011, 7:17 pm

Quote:
Asperger's Syndrome - Different Sense of Humor


Fixed, at least in my case.


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09 Dec 2011, 7:47 pm

Things that are funny to me are most often not funny to others and vice-versa. But I can do imitations and voices and stuff, and that makes people lol. Or, I make remarks and commentaries that people laugh at, and they do laugh to extreme. It's just that I almost never do that to make others laugh, it is a mere consequence.
I am terrible, disastrous, at telling jokes.



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09 Dec 2011, 7:49 pm

I don't always get when others are joking and answer back seriously.

When I do get someone is joking, if it's not funny, I don't laugh. If it is funny, I do laugh.

I tell jokes but usually just puns of literal interpretation.

Perhaps people get their feelings hurt when you aren't laughing at their jokes so they claim you have no sense of humor.



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09 Dec 2011, 8:54 pm

I have a great sense of humor genuinely. Sometimes my "lack" of humor is me being silent so I won't say a joke that offends people



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09 Dec 2011, 9:51 pm

I had lots of problems as a kid with assuming others were serious when they were joking but I joked around some & I would laugh at lots of things that most others thought were very inappropriate. I think lots of Aspie have a more unique sense of humor that NTs don't get so NTs assume that us Aspies don't


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09 Dec 2011, 11:45 pm

I like my sense of humor like I like my coffee.
Black, and ground up in the freezer.

My sense of "humor" was essentially self manufactured to fit in with others; to a great extent a by-product of what some call depression.
The world is mostly a black hole to me. As a result, my humor is black and zero sum. (zero sum is probably a better description than gallows humor)

one example, I LOL'd
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/03/ ... t=mps&or=1



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10 Dec 2011, 3:34 am

jjstar wrote:
Dry, stone, cold and zero humor unless it's at the expense of someone else's misfortune. True or false? And no fibbing either.


I am a very funny Aspie. It's a good cover!



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30 Jan 2012, 8:49 am

To me, this is an example of potty humour. It's sort of funny. But not ever. Perhaps because pee and poo aren't really generational affairs. And more to do with digestion, than with gaming.

Izaak wrote:
ahhh! just thought of the perfect example of my humour.

My friend was talking about getting a wii. I suggested he should wait for the next generation. The Nintendo poo.

He just looked at me askance while I pissed myself laughing.



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30 Jan 2012, 9:27 am

I can laugh about the same things NTs do, although I prefer witty / political humor over slapstick. I'm a big fan of comedians like George Carlin (RIP) and Bill Maher. What I absolutely can't laugh about is when people poke fun at other, weaker persons.

Despite having a pretty normal sense of humor, I can't make jokes myself. Every now and then, I manage to make people laugh, but it's often unintentional.