Inappropriate Laughing, anyone else with this problem?

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That is hilarious.

People who are close to me get upset at me cause I laugh at really random/inappropriate moments. Sometimes I'll think something weird is funny, and the other times I have no idea why I'm laughing lol. I try to control it but it just escapes me sometimes >.<

For example, me and some other girls are sitting and talking and all of a sudden i think about something funny and don't hear what the others are talking about and laugh at the funny thing i was thinking about And they like "What is so funny?"

It's not infrequent that people, not necessarily with AS, will laugh as a sort of nervous reaction to a shocking event. One time I had a teacher in primary school, who was a man, and once broke down crying in front of us and I couldn't help but laugh. I felt so guilty afterwards. But it's not that uncommon.

As for just finding things plain funny that other people may not find funny, or not finding funny something that a lot of people find funny, that's certainly not solely the domain of people with AS but I suppose that might have something to do with it. I'm mostly alone among my non-AS friends and family in usually not following the punchline of a joke and having to ask afterwards.

If I think of something I find funny, I often will laugh at it. This happened in class during college on a few occassions.

My brother's wife was driving me to her house once and she had to slam on her brakes to prevent from rear-ending a quickly-stopping car in front of her, and I laughed very hard at that. I thought it was funny, but she was not amused.

Dangerous situations and events which don't result in anyone being hurt make me laugh, although others don't think it is funny.

I don't think I could keep from laughing either in that circumstance. I've had similar situations like those before.

I have an over active imagination and am always thinking of funny things. People like seeing me laughing to myself, I'm just accepted as an odd ball.

But yeah I do laugh at inappropreate times.

I laugh and cry at the same time sometimes - luckily this is infrequent. It is pretty much an indescribable feeling. It is very overwhelming to say the least. I remember when I was in 3rd grade, my teacher used to call me sunshine rain. It occurs less frequently now that I am older. The feeling results from feeling two emotions at the same time. For example this occurs if I deeply understand an emotion or if I learn something incredible which makes me happy, but then I also feel sadness if what I have learned is disheartening. Or for example, I will laugh at something inappropriately, then feel sad for laughing inappropriately, then cry but continue laughing because I find it funny that I am sad for laughing and so on.... It may be my embodiment of frustration.

Frequently I just laugh inappropriately. I remember when i was little, my mom was on the phone telling my sister and i to be quiet and to quit laughing. Trying not to laugh made me laugh harder. Now sometimes when i am in a serious situation like a professional work meeting, i think on this and start laughing. Other times thoughts or visualizations run through my mind that i think are funny so I laugh out loud. If I look certain people in the eyes i laugh because I picture them comically. It is embarrassing, and when I try not to laugh, I must make awful facial expressions. I feel people looking at me when this happens. People have thought I was high or drunk before or that I was laughing at them, and i was not. I just laugh at "nothing" alot. It is awful. It usually occurs when there is a serious air, like in an intense conversation, a meeting, or during a quiet moment like while in church or during a moment of solemn silence. I find seriousness and nothingness to be funny.

For the most part, I laugh appropriately, but there are a few consistent exceptions.

Heh, like a lot of people here, I often end up laughing out loud or uncontrollably while thinking of something funny randomly, or remembering a previous funny experience. I've gotten a few funny looks before. Whoops...

I used to crack up uncontrollably all the time whenever my sister got into trouble with my parents, with them yelling and her crying. I'm not sure if it was some sort of bizarre nervous reaction to the situation or not, although sometimes I think I got a slight perverse delight in my sister getting into trouble

I also find situations where I just won't laugh at an obvious joke when I'm among a large group of people. I tend to have to force myself a bit. In smaller, intimate circles, not a problem so much.

..I'm still not over 'receive bacon'... thanks Obres!

I searched for a laughing thread because I suspected others might have the laughing thing too - I know this conversation seems to have died, but I want to put in my 2 cents.

Laughing fits, mostly silent hysterical laughter, can strike me at any time, either from something random I remember, or from an odd observation. I find bad grammar and spelling, inconsistent beliefs or statements, optical illusions, others' misfortune, large brightly coloured things and much much more hilarious - looking up on a clear day is enough to set me off for an hour or so sometimes. My laughing has gotten me kicked out of class countless times, and even got the attention of the psych people when I couldn't stop for hours, or explain why the carpet was funny, and ended up laugh-crying because my stomach hurt from too much laughing. Great for the abs, not so good for the kid trying not to get committed to the psych ward.

I'd also like to put that I don't think we should feel guilty for laughing at others' misfortune - it's an established form of comedy, like slapstick, or Mr Bean stuff - we may want to try to tame or delay our responses to those we're trying to keep on good terms with though, but that's quite different from thinking we shouldn't even find it funny.

I laugh at inappropriate times. I even laugh when I'm depressed.

When ever someone's talking and staring at me I alsways cover my mouth because most of the time i'm laughing.
So, I do think I have that problem.

I just pictured you bursting out laughing, and now everyone is giving me weird looks. >.> hehe

I laugh all the time, usually when appropriate, but I have a very black sense of humour which some people find disturbing. I have a hard time at funerals or if people tell me that someone has died - there is something about all those serious and miserable looking faces that just creases me up laughing.

As a kid when my parents told me our neighbour had died I had to rush into another room to hide my face. I think my parents assumed I was grief stricken but it was really to hide the fact that I was doubled up laughing with my hand over my mouth to muffle the sound. I really, really hate funerals for the same reason - rip roaring laughter doesn't seem to go down very well.

I have the most obnoxious laugh :D

Because it IS funny! That's awesome!