Is laughing physically uncomfortable for any of you?

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I can handle and enjoy a light giggle, but when I get to laughing hard, it's painfully uncomfortable. My muscles tighten and I have trouble breathing, and a lot of the time, I get grey/black blurs in my vision (like prior to one passing out). If I'm laying down and start laughing, I'll pretty much stop breathing, and then I panic, and begin to cry. I don't have asthma or any diagnosed breathing difficulties. I know the phrase "laugh so hard it hurts" is common, but I feel like it's exponentially true in my case.

I read online of a spontaneous condition known as 'laughter-induced syncope", which is basically fainting from laughter. I keep wondering if this is going to happen to me some day, since I feel like I'm about to pass out every time, but never have.

I'm not sure if or how this could be related to AS, so please feel free to move this post if it's OT...but I thought maybe it was partially relevant because it's a strong emotion and physical sensation, which can be issues with AS.

Only if it gets to the point when you are unable to control it; you WANT to stop but you can't and it has been going out for a while. This happened at camp when I was 13. Someone else was laughing uncontrollably too, which made it even HARDER to stop laughing.

ALL of my laughing is uncontrollable. I guess that's the problem. I once laughed for 15 minutes straight, literally. I was writhing around on the floor in pain, and simply could not stop. I think the inability to stop just makes me laugh more. It's a vicious cycle. haha.

i envy you. i hardly ever laugh at all, something i attribute to my AS. if i think something is funny, i say "ha, ha."

I haven't laughed like that in a long time.

And really, uncontrollable laugher always made me feel good, idk why.

I still LOL, but don't ROFL much.

I guess it's pertinent to mention, that the intensity of these laughing episodes never match the comic factor of whatever it was that made me laugh. It's typically things that would make most people chuckle a bit that leave me doubled over in pain from laughing so hard, and other things that make people laugh a lot may make me smile appreciatively. Sometimes the laughter seems to come out of nowhere.

All I know is...I'd much rather smile or giggle than laugh the way I do.