Harmless Autism Jokes

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Autistic kids rock!
- Mostly back and forwards with their hands over their ears.

What did one autistic kid say to the other?
-Nothing.

Being a neurodiverse individual myself I find these pretty funny

NT: Why was six afraid of seven?

Aspie: Six is a number. Therefore, it is incapable of various emotions such as fear.

I just found this topic. I love the humor Aspies and Auties have!

Skilpadde, you've got some nerve, saying that he is "not one of us". He says on his profile that he doesn't know, and I'm sure that if he can make up (good) jokes like that, he's been hurt himself by having one or more of our characteristics. Who are you to exclude people? A lot of us aren't diagnosed. I myself lived 63 years not only not diagnosed, but never having _heard_ of Asperger's!

The thread to which you linked is all "walked into a bar" jokes, anyway.

Callista, who is one of the smart people here, said in a thread (illness, disorder, or disability) yesterday:
"But it's not quite so simple when you look at it more closely.

"There are people with autistic traits who are not disabled, and not diagnosable with autism because they are not disabled. These people regardless have a lot in common with autistic people, perhaps more than they have in common with neurotypicals. The recent statement by Seinfeld about being somewhere on the spectrum probably refers to a non-disabled person with autistic traits, which is why it annoyed so many parents whose young children are autistic and disabled. It also reflects that there is very little awareness of the fact that non-disabled people can and do have autistic traits--things like unusually sensitive sensory systems or social skills on the low end of typical. If we knew that, then many of the people like Seinfeld, who see autistic traits in themselves even though they are not disabled, could understand their kinship to full-blown autistics and perhaps even become translators that can link us better to the world around us.

"The concept of "autistic culture"--a new, still rather nebulous group of concepts that are shared by people on the spectrum--can mean that "autistic" is a cultural identity as well as a diagnosis. A person can be "culturally autistic" even after they no longer qualify for an autism diagnosis, usually because they've aged out of the disability part of it. (Kids with mild autism can grow up to be non-disabled, so that's the biggest group, but conceivably, it could happen to an adult too.) Some people with disorders very closely related to autism, like Fragile X and NVLD, also fit in with autistics better than any other group and have access to that same body of ideas that we can call the beginnings of autistic culture."

By his own words in several posts and in the PM he sent me about it, he is socially an NT, but not neurologically because he has OCD. Get the facts before you lash out on me

You got some nerve saying I got some nerves.


lol no it's not. There are plenty of different jokes there.

m8, don't generalise like that. Obviously haven't read up to page 6 and seen the different joke.

Just to clarify, when I created this thread (months ago) I was unsure whether I had ASD or not. My counselor and various others suggested the possibility to me.

When posting the OP, I expected that some may have reacted negatively, so I stated that I would remove the jokes had somebody a personal complaint against them. I didn't receive any PMs highlighting distress, so the jokes remain. I do apologize if they offend anybody in a more mild way, regardless.

I haven't changed my diagnosis from 'Not sure if I have it or not' because as Skilpadde said, I don't feel it suitable to label myself as NT. I can relate to the experiences of 'mildly' autistic (majority of this board) people more than I can to most other NTs - in this sense, I am as Sibyl describes, undiagnosable, but can relate. I do have different diagnoses (OCD as the primary neurological) and may potentially have more, but there are no options to select these in the profile. This is more of a personal decision than how others would view me.

Personally, I can understand both your reactions. If a stranger without OCD started making jokes about my life experience, I would most likely be much more prone to offense than if it were another person with OCD - which I believe to be somewhat equivalent to Skilpadde's experience. I don't take offense to 'you are not one of us', because technically I am not.

Conversely, Sibyl has lived an enormous 63 years undiagnosed and so it's perfectly reasonable (IMO) to assume that purposeful exclusion is taking place, which ties in to the nature of my being. I am only 19 years old but I can relate to this sense of having no stable place to fit in. From this perspective, 'you are not one of us' can be damaging.

I could write more, but from my point of view, there is no need to fight about it. Those are just two different natural reactions to what I have done.

A charity collector stops a man in a mall.

He asks the guy would he like to donate to autism support.

The guy says all I have on me is a credit card and 86 cent but I am not given that I know those people with Autism can't handle change.

I have Asperger's and dyslexia. Even though I can't draw I still get told I'm artistic.

ASD people are bad with money because they can't handle change.

How do you get autistics to voluntarily crowd into a noisy room and network with each other?

Hold a Star Trek convention.

An aspie walks into a crowded bar....

haha, just kidding, that would never happen... ( sorry, rather pathetic attempt i know!)

I remember one time after church, my mom kept saying "I feel so sorry for her. I had to eat crow," and she didn't explain it to me until we got in the car. I kept asking if she really ate a crow and I played in my head of this scenario of this homeless woman coming to church with a crow casserole and people eating it to not seem mean. My mom couldn't stop laughing because I was freaking out.

I also had another situation where I had to do QC stuff in my MLT classes and the directions said to "clean the glassware." I cleaned the glassware and none of the plastic beakers in the sink. The director of the program said she would probably have to edit the QC sheets so that wouldn't happen again with future students.