Humor, Autism, and Asperger's

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I have a sense of humor. My sense of humor is one of the few things I can truly say I like about myself. I find humor essential to maintaining some semblance of sanity in a world that can be confusing, overwhelming disappointing, frustrating, terrifying and occasionally downright devastating.

I also use humor as a means of masking my social deficits. I've had numerous people comment on how "funny" I am. I enjoy a variety of different kinds of humor, ranging from dry and satirical, to downright goofy and silly.

I have a great sense of humor and can make people laugh when I'm in the mood for it. IIRC Valerie Gauss says that some people with AS have excellent senses of humor in her book.

The only thing I'll miss is a very narrow band of humor where a strictly literal view will take the joke off the tracks. Sometimes I'll have to ask what the joke meant. That's very rare. Or I can sit there and puzzle over it for a few minutes and usually figure it out.

I'm funny because I notice details others don't, I say whatever I want and don't care about it, and I am witty

I am also very modest.

Facetious, too!

im not usually any good at making other people laugh...

people with weird and/or dark senses of humor crack me up.

I've noticed people's usernames and signatures, and I've been told my signature is hilarious as well. That being said I don't have trouble with comedy, or being funny one bit.

I love
will ferrel, garth algar, and awkward humor in general.
Pure, raw reaction I find hilarious. Like, when someone jumps from behind a corner and scares the crap out of someone Or, people falling.

oh, and this (listen to the circus announcer, too. Not the dumb guy ad-libbing)):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1U6Jb0r1dA&feature=related[/youtube]


As far as making people laugh, not really a problem with me. My honesty and the fact that I have no boundaries with the things I will talk about makes people crack up in of itself. But, I usually don't feel like talking to people to begin with. LOL

In one Calvin & Hobbes strip, Calvin asked why people have a sense of humor - what evolutionary advantage could it possibly confer? Hobbes' reply: "I think that if we couldn't laugh at things that are ridiculous, we couldn't react to a lot of life."

The last panel was Calvin's reaction: "I can't decide if that's funny or really scary."

I tend to like jokes that are a little obscure, too:

The tachyon leaves. The bartender says, "We don't serve your kind here." A tachyon walks into a bar.

Two electrons are driving their new car. The driver suddenly exclaims, "I have no idea where we are!" His passenger replies, "I told you that new speedometer was too accurate!"

And of course, Steven Wright is my hero:

"My apartment allows pets. I have a pony. I ride him over to the record player to change LPs, into the kitchen to get a snack..."

"I had a skylight installed. The people upstairs are furious."

"There's a switch in my place that doesn't do anything. I used to flip it off and on every time I went past. Then I got a letter from this lady in Germany, saying, 'Knock it off!'"

"I named my dog Stay. I used to call to him - 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!' He got really confused. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. He's an East German Shepherd - very disciplined."

i think Dostoevsky is funny.

I love these two. I'm such a geek.

*thumbs up*

On a related note:

Heisenberg is out for a drive when he's stopped by a traffic cop. The cop says 'Do you know how fast you were going?' Heisenberg says 'No, but I know where I am.'

Yeah, those two were awesome.

Sometimes I laugh when I look at all the different usernames, and I feel like a part of a big family.

I've been told that I'm funny, but when people laugh at something I say, I don't find what I said funny at all. Frustration is one emotion I can express very vividly and loud, and I think people find it funny because they see it as coming out of the blue and not typical of my normally reserved behavior.

As for my own humor, it's weird. I laugh when someone says something that puts an unintended image in my head. Like... my professor said he was "flogging a dead horse" (in the figurative meaning of the phrase), and I almost had to leave the room from laughing... And I KNOW it's not funny!