Asperger's and Humour

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Hi all,
I found this on Wikipedia:

I have a sense of humor. I have never thought about it enough to describe it well.

I misunderstand the jokes of others frequently.

I can see how a psychologist could report that I do not have a sense of humor, though it would be inaccurate.

i disagree with 'impaired', although 'atypical' would be valid.
i have a sense of humour alright, but it's different from what the average NT has.
lucky for me, i mainly associate with atypical NTs, making my humour understood by them as well (more often then not) and vice-versa.

I think I have a very intelligent and clever sense of humor. I often have a clever two cents to add to a conversation that will make everyone laugh. It is usually based on observation and I think that a part of it is my childlike way of observing things. However, I don't always have the will or energy to share with others and just keep it to myself, and another reasonable part of the time I know that they will not understand the humor anyway. I have a couple friends who do get my humor and boy can we have a fun time when we're on a roll

Thinking more on it, I do think I would say that my humor is my understood by others more often than not. I keep a lot of laughs to myself and when I do share, I often "dummy it down".

I like intelligent humor. Not 'below the waist' or 'cake in the face' humor. I like intelligent jokes.

At the same time, I really hate pranks and don't understand most of them.

I think I have a good sense of humor and joke around online all the time.
Maybe it's that autistic people are less inclined to pretend something is funny when it's really not.
I also think there are professional comedians with Aspergers.
Steven Wright comes to mind. And especially Andy Kaufman.
But of course their humor is more sophisticated and very offbeat.

I'd say I have an intelligent, yet dark, witty and sarcastic sense of humor.

My sense of humor has tended to be a little goofy and random whereas many of the people I am friends with tend to use drier, wittier humor. I never really understood that kind of humor until several years ago, and it took me a longer time to even appreciate it. Now I can laugh at both types: thinking about the meanings behind jokes and exposure to them in social settings helped me to understand them more.

People on the spectrum do have a sense of humor, and I know many funny people with ASD personally. However, I have noticed sometimes they do have problems grasping certain types of NT humor due to them either not having a frame of reference for it, not understanding implied meanings, and because of problems understanding nonverbal behavior. This is another reason I think people on the spectrum generally seem to be better friends with each other than with NTs: they tend to be on the same page in that they tend to use similar forms of humor.

I don't really have a problem understanding humor, I just don't find a lot of it funny. I think a lot of humor is just too stupid to make me laugh. I can still understand why it may make other people laugh.

I feel I certainly have a sense of humour....not sure exactly what 'type' I know I kind of tend towards dark, satirical sort of humor and like intelligent humor where real problems in society are addressed but in a more funny/satirical way.

Yeah I disagree!

As a kid, my therapist told me to read joke books to understand humour better, and it worked. My school principal commented that I was laughing more at her jokes at assembly than the NT kids.

A few years ago I worked with a kid on the spectrum and he didn't understand jokes very well. So I told him a joke and explained the punchline and he said, "That's a very good joke!"

I'm told that I have an odd sense of humour. I'm also told by a lot of people that they find it difficult to tell when I'm joking and when I'm being serious. This is probably a combination of Aspie traits, and practised deadpan.

Not everybody laughs at my jokes. Sometimes I think I'm misunderstood or misheard, sometimes I'm just not funny... though once I get to know someone, making them laugh isn't hard.