Asperger's Syndrome - No Sense of Humor

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I'd like to think I have a great sense of humour. I'm always having a laugh. It helps me get through hard times. I can find the same things funny as an NT would. As for people's misfortune... I wouldn't say I'd deliberately find it funny. I have compassion to some extent. I do, however, like to tease. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I do like to jokingly and light-heartedly tease. It's a good thing normally because it's my way of saying I like someone. That I feel comfortable with them. Some people are just like that.

I've only just remembered...when I was little, I was with a so-called professional with my mum, and they were talking and made a joke and laughed. I understood the joke and laughed too, then he just went to me, "Ehh, you don't understand it because of your Aspergers". The same guy said I didn't have AS cos I had good eye contact.

...And they say people with AS are too rigid in their thinking!

False.....well that was easy.

As I said on another thread, I think it's the opposite. We do have a sense of humour, but not at someone else's expense. We don't see it as humorous, because a lot of us got laughed at at some point, maybe even by those who were close to us.

That being said, I said on league girl's thread that I laugh at people with mental problems. It hasn't happened IRL lately at all, but I read a specific retelling of events that happened to one of my idols in a book and laughed at his misfortune... even though he's dead now. I can't really justify to myself why, but maybe I let myself do it because people only get offended if you mock them to their face, and if you read about someone you never knew and laugh, and don't mean to shame that person's memory, that's fine.

Nobody around here makes me laugh what does that tell you ?

That we're not funny.

That being said, people can enjoy other people's humour without being funny themselves.

Autistics with friends.

Yes!

One autisitic young lass claims here she had "lots of friends" never did I laugh so much , poor girl is she delusional?

Are you talking to me? Would I need to clarify what I said - because I never said I had lots of friends? For that matter, I don't have the knowledge to declare I'm autistic. My profile says 'I don't know. But I got the joke, if you needed to know that.

Last edited by Bun on 30 Jan 2012, 9:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well on a "Meet up thread" the member said apparently one of the "comedians" at the comedy club was autistic and he says the scene is full of them, since autistics are more likely to be manic depressives I guess it's quite possible ( I don't buy Dr Tony Atwood's claims that mental illness are only slightly higher in the autistic population . )


Not saying all comedians are depressive though their sure are a lot of comedians who are.

Last edited by aussiebloke on 30 Jan 2012, 9:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

lass= female

Yes, allot of posters here don't get my humor, that has actually caused me to post less than I might want to.

^^^

Perhaps your not funny did that occur to you?



Humour best left to the professionals and even than.......



Seriously tough gig.