Everyone else finds it funny, I don't...Why?

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I can relate. I used to REALLY feel like this, but I think over time my sense of humor kinda became more typical. But still, sometimes people will bust up laughing and I'll totally miss why.

I never saw Seinfeld but I do like some sitcoms.
I grew up on friends, and still like it, although I seem to be the only one here
I really love Simpsons, and most South Park. The funniest show of all time is still Arrested Development though
In general, I have some moments where people laugh about something I don't find amusing, but that doesn't happen a lot.

i have never found anything external to my imagination funny.

when people launch into telling a joke, i start to laugh before the punchline because i know that i will not "get it", and i imagine myself with a blank face upon the delivery of the punch line, and when people tell me that i am laughing before i should, and that the joke is not over, i laugh harder because i think that them trying to tell me a joke is a joke in itself.

sitcoms and other supposedly funny shows never make me laugh and i do not pay attention to them.
i see regular comedy as simply a string of linguistic recipes designed to make people laugh.

when i think of absurd ideas privately, i start to laugh, and sometimes i will tell them in a dead pan type of way as if i am being serious, and the expressions of bewilderment on the faces of whom i tell them too are just as funny.

i can catapult into an almost seizure of laughter if no one who i tell my jokes to gets my jokes. some people look at me in a state of concern for my mental welfare when i nonchalantly tell them an absurd idea, and that makes me laugh. i guess i can only laugh privately.

people looking confused is funny to me. they know i am not stupid, so they can not reconcile the stupidity of what i sometimes say.

i like to arbitrarily pretend that i am stupid, and when people wonder whether i am stupid, i just bask in mirth.

i laugh at people's teeth, and i also laugh at the furrowed expression wrinkles they have on their faces.
when i start to laugh unexplainedly, those expression furrows intensify, and so does my mirth.

i am much more reserved in experimenting with people than i once was. i used to find it funny blowing my horn at people who are doing nothing wrong on the road, and pretending i have a misplaced grievance with them, because their reactions were priceless.

sometimes i used to blow my horn at red traffic lights and i pressed my window button down and i used to stick my head out and insult them and people in neighboring cars looked at me as if i was insane, and that was the reaction i wanted to elicit.

i also like to make up unfunny jokes that people listen to but are unmoved by.
i like to tell them when everyone else is telling jokes that others laugh at, and it is my turn to tell a joke.

an example of this is the joke:
Q: what is the similarity of having no surplus therapod dinosaurs and riding a horse?.
A: in both situations you have no spare tire and a sore arse (no spare tyrannosaurus).

people who wear glasses often push them closer to their eyes and ask how it was funny, and i tell them that their reaction was the punchline to my private joke.

they still do not understand and sometimes i just leave because my stomach hurts because i can not stop laughing.

one of the worst social disasters i ever experienced was at a presentation i went to with my boss judy. the manager of the corporation that we were trying to sell our services to was quite normal during the presentation, and he said "can we continue the conversation in my office", and judy elbowed me in the tummy and she said "we've got the deal sewn up".
when we were in his office the conversation went normally until he said " OK. I'll just tell ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-janet to type the terms, and i just blew off into a fit of laughter. i know it is not nice to laugh at stuttering people and judy looked at me with a panicked expression, and i had to leave the room immediately and run outside and recover in the parking lot.

i could not re-enter the situation because it is like it hit my mental tickle nerves. it is hard to suppress laughter when i realize that laughing is the worst thing i could do in a situation.

judy apologized for me and the manager knew i was autistic and we got the contract because he knew i was a good programmer.

another time that was a social disaster was once when i was walking up a set of stairs at a railway station. a chinese man was walking down the stairs, and he lost his footing and he shuddered face first down the stairs and his briefcase was forced open and his papers were blown everywhere in the wind. he came to a halt next to me and he looked at me and i simply looked at him and said "good morning" and continued on my way up the stairs. i did not do it intentionally, and it was not until a few minutes later when i was remonstrated by other people in my vicinity for dismissing his plight that i found it funny. he was not injured much anyway, but my reaction to other people's remonstration was an uncontrollable smirk that angered them more.

people are like senseless herds who all are quite serious in their reactions.

who knows?. i have a sense of humor that no one else will ever "get" and i am not unhappy about that.

i have ODD and i used to play games with policemen.

once i decided that i would go for a walk in an area that i knew was crawling with police cars. as soon as i saw a police car i started to run as fact as i could in order for them to chase me.
i then ran through backyards and scaled fences in order to evade them, but they eventually caught me and they were as angry as disturbed wasps. back at the police station, they found that i had no police record and there was no crime committed anywhere near where i was, so they had to let me go, and one police officer told me to pass him a pen that was on my side of the desk, and i refused to do so.

policeman: yeah mate, pass me that pen"
me: no.
policeman: what?
me: no.
policeman: what's your problem? just hand me that pen.
me: no

he reached forward and grabbed the pen and he wanted to charge me with refusing to obey a policeman.

me: what will my sentence be if i am found guilty of not handing you a pen?
policeman: you are a problem mate. you've got problems.
me: but they are your problems. not mine.

another time i pretended i was dead in a recreational park at dawn.
i found an area with dead leaves all over the ground, and i lied face down and was motionless.
i tried to breathe so lightly that it could not be detected.
someone who was walking their dog picked up a stick and gently prodded me with it to see if i was dead and i did not respond.
she jabbed me again and i suddenly came to life and rolled face side up and said "what do you want" and she screamed and ran off and called the police. when the police asked me why i was laying face down on ground, i told them that i liked the smell of dead leaves.

i found that funny, but no one else did.

i am glad that i do not have that streak in me these days.

Seinfeld is not funny.

A long while back I watched a couple of Seinfeld episodes. I am evaluated as meeting diagnostic criteria for autism. I am waiting for a diagnosis (yes or no). I could not fathom how Seinfeld and his cohorts put so much time and energy into such a waste of time.

Humor is individual.

But to make it a bit broader;

- Your language processing (and how much you're exposed and how much you can access) tied to your perception of it's context is directly different

- Your culture and upbringing (your personality, your priorities, your values; which is trivial, which is serious, etc. and/or perception and sentiments towards it, along with anything that one acquires contexts through it) is different

- You don't have the right knowledge or exposure (media consumption, certain scenes, communities and fandoms), be in certain situations or experience (intersectionality, occupations, and inside jokes of specific circles or even generational gaps) to get the reference or appreciate it


It's more or less kind of like memes, really, if something is relatable to you enough to perceive it as a joke or something just funny as others do and share around...

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I never did get Seinfield either.