Excessive Laughter?

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I looked up this link because I met a lady today and she has a problem with excessive laughing, I looked it up, being the curious person I am and also noticing other stuff about this lady and this webpage gives some reasons, and sure enough PDD is one of them. I won't talk too much about the lady but I suspect she could be an aspie, but maybe I'm reading too much stuff about aspies

Anyway, has anyone ever heard of this?

No, but I wish I did have that problem! Who knows, one day when my life is a happier one I might laugh more. Right now I have lots to smile about, but it is work trying to navigate all the bad stuff that happens that I cant really be truly joyful. I can still smile though at least.

I am frequently told by NTs that I laugh excessively at things that are not that funny or what they claim as not being funny at all. I also received nearly daily demerits in elementary school for snickering and laughing in class. I'm in college now and I still sometimes crack a smile when absolutely nothing humorous is happening in class and I will have to put my palm in front of my mouth in order to prevent the inevitable "What is so funny?" comments.

I laugh at what I find funny, not what they find funny. It averages out to about the same.

Its natural to laugh. 4 laughing babies

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a vividly warped sense of humor saved my life many times, so if i laugh long and hard over anything, it is something i am thankful for. i laugh at the most odd things. i remember working in a hospital maternity ward and one evening i was walking from my workroom when out of the corner of my eye i noticed a set of slightly soiled women's briefs on the floor gathering dust in a corner, and it had a crack smudge and i just lost it, and doubled-over and hooohaarhaarrred so loudly that a female doctor came over to see what was the matter with me, and i pointed at the corner and she too lost it and shrieked with laughter, which caused the other employees to avoid us as though we had some contageous mental disorder.
btw, after all these years i still hope and wonder if somebody had picked 'em up off the floor, washed 'em and gotten some good use out of 'em. it was good underwear and deserved much better treatment.

ROFL @ AuntBlabby's story.

I laugh constantly sometimes. When me and my friend Zack were fixing up his car I can't even remember the s**t we laughed about but he had two female friends there one night and I'm on the passenger side leaning over the fender and he's on the drivers side and we're just laughing "blah blah blah coolant temperature sensor HAHAHAHA fuel pump switched off HAHAHAHA distributor backwards HAHAHAHA" yeah....those girls thought I was weird, thank goodness....I figured they were stupid.

I laugh at what I find funny and sometimes that causes confused reactions from people.

When I laugh at things which are really funny and sometimes due to my different way of processing humor I cannot stop laughing for a long time. I think it is the manisfestation of lack of the ability to shift attention. I guess just as we tend to focus longer on things we cannot get over other emotions soon may it be sorrow, depression, guilt, hatred, happiness, laughter etc.

I am usually indifferent, unemotional most of the time but when I see or hear something funny I often can't help myself from laughing I seem to laugh more than most say in a group or class at times I have noticed. This was embarrasing in school/college sometimes because I hear something funny and I would be the only one laughing but I just can't keep the laughter hidden sometimes.

I laugh quite a bit. Rather enjoy laughing in fact.

Sometimes I just start chortling out of nowhere I think of something riotous and yes, I laugh at things other people think are inappropriate. I remember one time at work. There was a SME (subject matter expert) I was working with while designing a new system. She was a large lady. Not just rubenseque, or even American fat. She was easily over four bills, had a special pedestal stand chair because she had broken several regular computer chairs. While I worked with her, she drank full-sugar cola. Four or five liters a day, plus a couple bags of chips, and lunch. So one day she was getting frustrated, and she belts out, "You don't understand, it's hard for me to remember things, I'm diabetic!"

Well, I started laughing, and it kept rolling, into somewhat of a manic, uncontrollable hysteria. She told me to stop, got offended, and left to get her boss. I couldn't help it.

It was really funny to me, not just because of her self-destructive lifestyle, but because I am (and was at that time too) so much sicker than her. I still had my colon then and had barely controllable ulcerative colitis. Less than a year before I'd spent five weeks hospitalized with first hepatic pancreatitis (which is both hepatitis and pancreatitis at the same time) which evolved into bile perontinitus after a percataneous tube was withdrawn from my heavily fibrosised liver, which then began leaking bile into my abdomen. So I'm laughing my ass off because she thinks her biggest problem is life is that she has obesity driven diabetes - AND here I am, building a computer system that will replace her, in constant pain, with a newborn baby at home, taking grad school night classes, sprinting to the bathroom a dozen times a day, never sleeping more than 120 minutes in a row, with monthly blood tests watching for liver cancer and my MELD score and a perc tube draining bile out of my blocked gall bladder into a bag taped to my ribcage. At least I didn't have encephalopathy at that time, nor my NALF or Cushing Syndrome, all of which evolved later.

Oh normal people. How I wish I could have a life where I was allowed to make bad decisions. Being AS keeps me alive. When one of your all-consuming focuses is personal survival, you study the system and figure out how to beat the odds.

Well, basically this lady laughs almost uncontrollably at everything. That's what I was getting at, if anyone has ever heard of that before.

Yes I laugh "excessively" and so does my apparently autistic friend.

Mine is "excessive" because I laugh at inappropriate times and I find humour in a lot of things when pother people don't. I might laugh when some hitherto unvoiced truth is expressed in a film or play, or when somebody says something that I relate to, even if it's a sad thing we're talking about. I think I use laughter to relieve stress too - I might laugh if I discover that any work I've been asked to do is being made impossible by other people, or if somebody asks me to do something that's impossible or would be much more difficult than they're implying. I suppose I see life as something of a joker, and I see the world as quite ludicrous.....even after all these years in that world, I still laugh in disbelief at how messy, dishonest, gullible and desperate the human race can be. I also laugh when I spot propaganda methods in politicians' remarks, especially when they use really old methods like the concept of the "deserving/undeserving poor." And I laugh when I'm surprised.

Anyway I think it's healthy to laugh regularly. As long as it's not a funeral or similar. It gets difficult when somebody wants me to be serious, but I can usually calm down fairly quickly once I see the reason to.

There have been times where I smiled or laughed at anything anybody said. My reactions are inappropriate and uncontrollable. I think the smiling/laughing is a now failing survival tactic where I used to smile and be ultra polite to people as a kid. They thought it was cute. I'm also easily amused.

However my laughter is kind of faint, it is hard for me to express laughter correctly unless I am imitating fake laughter.

I tend to have that problem alot people can get me to laugh over the STUPIDEST things sometimes for no apparent reason at all

Dont really know if its tied to my Bipolar dissorder or not