Humour in the spectrum.

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humorless bunch are you kidding me?!

90% of my posts are based on humor or smart-ass responses. Iv'e been told I have an off beat sense of humor. A lot of people who just met me don't understand my sense of humor.


The thing is when a lot of people meet me, they think i'm either cocky, an as*hole or immature. But once you get to know me, i'm actually a pretty nice and cool guy.

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I've often made jokes throughout my life, often to blank stares and outright scoldings at times. This would make me clam up and not tell jokes. Once I became aware of the AS, this allowed me to exit my shell a bit in that regard. I joke more now, and at times the jokes bomb, but I just think to myself, they don't get my humor, and I kind of just shrug it off.

i'm the same I don't bother

Since I'm in a fairly serious and public profession, I've had to turn off my humor because on a few occasions some have interpreted a sexual overtone to a funny comment I've made, of which I was totally unaware, and of which I was shocked when someone pointed it out to me. I don't have a dirty mind in the least. My mind is like that of a child in many ways. So my solution, sadly, was to become boring. I don't make jokes anymore.

Umm... I couldn't understand or tell a joke at all until I was 15. But after then, I cannot stop giving funny comments on everything!

My humor ranges from dry wit to puns to absurdist sarcasm, as evidenced by my Twitter feed (PM me if you want to follow and I'll give you the link). I'll watch situational comedies or stand-up comedians, and unless it's something really oddball or askew, I don't find it all that funny.

Very nice. When my brother was in high school, he broke his arm pretty badly and actually snapped both the bones in his lower arm. My response when I found out: "Well, I guess he got his big break..." My mom's response: "I almost laughed at that one."

I have much experience in laying humor between the lines and not having any audience at all for my humor.

the fact some one here reads what I write is pretty laughable that's cause I think I'm rubbish lucky for me I feel that way about humanity to ,. lucky
pets remind me that I am human after all

the vile pm's I receive is further evidence that it's possible

Good point. Where did this pervasive idea of "Aspie = unfunny" come from?

I find that people on the spectrum have the best sense of humour, but maybe that's because it resonates with me since I am also on the spectrum. My sons certainly do - one who has classic autism and the other who has high functioning AS.

My problem is that I can use sarcasm, but I can struggle to understand it receptively. For example, my husband can be quite straight-forwardly facetious and it can almost drive me to tears with frustration because I cannot work out if he's being silly or not.

Two men into a bar are observing a guy with a broken leg and a broken arm and bruises all over his face.
"That man was really lucky, wasn't he?"
"Sure he was, he was ran over by an ambulance"

It's likely based on the notion that we tend to react 'incorrectly' to practical jokes or verbal jokes that make us the target. Those type of jokes serve a kind of social function, and, at least in my own personal experience, I tend to give off the impression that I'm either confused or annoyed by them, so that's the 'wrong' response and I'm viewed as being humourless. In reality, I have a fairly solid grasp on humour and jokes, though I'm not a very funny guy by far. But I have my moments.

I think this also partially ties into the 'autistics lack imagination' thing. They don't mean that we lack the ability to think up fantasy worlds of our own, as it's been pretty much established that we do, but they mean that we have trouble imagining what another person is thinking/feeling.

the same "experts" who believe "sensory issues" are only a childhood problem. Still is "sensory issue" simply anxiety? they sound similar if not the same.

LOL Snort

I hope so too.

speaking of the dead only did it once mind due I'd use their limbs and pretend their picking their nose probably more sick than humourous .