Can Anyone Explain this Phenomenon?

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This happened to me when I was younger. I hated it.

My mom does this to me when I speak with enthusiasm (I tend to have a lot of inflection in my voice when I do.) or when I make silly facial expressions. Other times she'll laugh about what I say and I don't know why.

Hey, I did say "unless I'm certain beyond all doubt". So I do allow the possibility of "good" laughter. Or even "deserved" laughter, like when I accidentally say something stupid or slip on a banana peel. But in my experience, the laughter I usually get thrown at me is "one letter away from slaughter". So I tend to err on the side of caution.

Thank you Yigeren, that's very flattering I do have a humorous streak, but it would be nice to be taken more seriously when I'm clearly (to me anyway) not trying to be funny. One example I can think of happened several months ago. The same boy I mentioned came up and asked, "What happens if you pour water on the floor in the freezer?" I could tell it wasn't rhetorical and that he actually wanted an answer so he could set up the punchline for a joke (in this case, one of my co-workers had tried to wash the freezer floor and wound up chipping ice for several hours) so I said, "Assuming the freezer is functioning at optimum efficiency, the water will freeze." He immediately started laughing, and when I asked him why, he repeated what I'd said, "Assuming the freezer is functioning at optimum efficiency."

My diction may have been a little overly formal for the situation, which may have been the reason for his laughter, but if he was laughing at the fact that I'd qualified my statement, that makes no sense. It wouldn't be accurate to simply say, "the water will freeze" because it doesn't take all the possibilities into account; if the freezer were unplugged and thawed out, or broken and not functioning properly, the water wouldn't freeze. I find that a lot of NTs I know gloss over or skip important details, and it drives me crazy.

"Slice these vegetables transversely in 5 mm increments."

"Assuming the freezer is functioning at optimum efficiency" would be a little formal for the situation, but I can imagine myself saying something similar. I would also feel the need to mention that the water would only freeze if the freezer were working properly, but I imagine most NTs would not. I think they usually don't consider those details to be important, or consider such information to be obvious or implied.

If I had to guess, I'd say that he was laughing at the formality of your speech.

"Your technique is flawed."

"Sorry, I'm a replicator man."

See? You are Annika Hansen. Now that your Borg implants have been removed it will just take you a little while to adjust to human society. As long as you allow sufficient time for regeneration I am certain you will have a bright future ahead.

Im a guy, and I never really noticed that either. Though Ive always heard that the guys we elect as president tend to be taller than average.

I have something similar happen to me.