Do you ever have a playful mood?

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I heard that autistics never have fun so, therefore, they never have a playful mood. Symptoms of a playful mood including wanting to joke around, making sarcastic comments, dramaticize, making ridiculously false statements(:wink:) and using suggestive emoticons. You'll know them when you see them!

So, do you?

I do and it happens very often I think...

Of course not, that's absurd.

I have an inner comedian that never stops....it's been my saving grace.
However, it only comes out to play with those it feels safe with. Just like any other aspect of my nature, be it empathy, or emotions...:.I have it in abundance, but the outer expression of it is complex.

Swbluto, you can't believe everything you read on the internet. That's how World War I got started.

Everything I say and do is deadly serious.

Wow, I must not be autistic after all!

(We're also incapable of using sarcasm.)

My baseline mood is playful.

I can be playful, but I am seldom if ever sarcastic, it doesn't come naturally to me.
The aspie I am with can be very humorous and sarcastic, but always with that blank face, which can throw me off totally, since I take things very literally myself

Take a look at the random discussion, swbluto, you see some of it there.
I do some of those examples, sometimes.

[quote="Graelwyn"]...The aspie I am with can be very humorous and sarcastic, but always with that blank face...

Sounds like me, which sometimes gets me in trouble when people don't understand that I am playing, but when they get it , they seem to find it very funny. What's odd is I can tend to be very literal when I'm on the receiving side of the communication. But I usually understand jokes and sarcasm (it just takes me a little longer)

Yes I'm sometimes playful. Especially when I'm around people who show that they want to play with me. Some friendships I've had at work have been little more than whimsical banter.

Also when I'm performing music, if I'm feeling confident enough then I'll say playful things to the audience and to the musicians I'm working with. It's interesting to watch how different amateur acts behave in that respect - a lot of really good musicians don't really get noticed because they don't play with the audience.

Best example I can think of was when I was writing to a lady who lived in another town.....we'd been having a laugh on the phone about money, and I'd been saying I might manage to give her a peanut on her birthday if I was feeling flushed......later I carefully cut open the shell of a monkey nut, ate the peanuts, put a couple of metal nuts (the kind you put onto bolts) into the shell, glued it back together, and posted it to her in the kind of box that you'd expect to contain jewelry. She phoned me on the day she got it, just to say thanks for the laugh. I guess it could have backfired with the wrong person, but she really loved stuff like that.

As for my secondary school days, I used to bugger about most of the time. There wasn't much else to do, as I couldn't understand the teaching. I've still got a page from a French text book I defaced horribly.

Some people have never seen me being playful, and I've even been accused of being too serious.....but those people don't know me, they just think they do.

Playful mood in the context of the OP? No.