I have a good sense of humor...

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How can I a High Functioning adult female have a good sense of humor. At my place of employment I found out about a year ago that I probably would be laid off. So! I decided to just be my autistic self and screw trying to fit in. It seems that I say things that really make people laugh. When I say laugh I mean laugh so hard they have tears in there eyes. For instance this morning I was in a team meeting. One of the managers said that there was a crime in his neighborhood and he said if he were to be questioned by the media he would have to act like an eastsider. Where I live the east side has a reputation for drugs and uneducated people. He said he would have to pretend he was drunk if they talked to him so people would know he was a real eastsider. I said why would you have to pretend you are a real eastsider. You are already like that? Everyone thought is was real funny, I at first was not trying to be funny and was quite serious but others thought it was hilarious.

I also bought some stick on's to put on the managers cubical windows. One of them said Ho Ho Ho and I put in on my manager Nicci's cube. Everyone was laughing because they thought I was calling her a Ho. "Slang for whore." I don't even have to try to be funny it just comes natural for me. When I was younger I was very introverted and did not talk much because I did not want people to think I was weird. I guess since I have aged I don't care what people think of me anymore. I will never understand how NT's view humor because most of the time what I think is not funny is funny to them and vise versa. So! I have learned to says or do things opposite of what I think is funny to get a good laugh out of the NT's I work with. I laugh allot at my own inside jokes every day. Most people would not see the humor in them so I don't share them.

Dan Aykroid.

Same deal.

I agree with yellowtamarin. You didn't intend to be funny so it wasn't your sense of humor.

Your comment about your colleague is one I would have interpreted the same was as they did, that you were making a quip about him already being the stereotype eastender.

I think I have a good sense of humor when people laugh at things I say that I did not intend to be funny.

The irony in life is your sence of humor. Something like that. If you make people laugh, you have one. It is a natural thing. Most people that try to be funny to me seem rather dry, and dull.

I'm high functioning and have a good sense of humour. It's because I understand what they think is funny. I just can't act in a way that allows me to join in. I can't keep a conversation going more than a couple of minutes but I DO KNOW what they think is funny. I'm smart. I'm quick and I know what to say on the spur of the moment but that's it. As far as conversation goes, I'm out!! !

Half the time I do, half the time I don't.

Half the time I do, while it, half the time I really made people laugh, and half the time making people confused.
And the other half, half the time I unintentionally made someone laugh; half the time I end up being pissed because of it.
Goddamned 'halves of half'.

Can I say: ¼ Intentionally made someone laugh and people appreciates it, ¼ Intentionally making a joke ends up with confused people. ¼ Unintentionally being funny, people laughs, but I end up confused. ¼ Unintentionally being funny, people laughs; and I end up being pissed.

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This reminds me of that episode of Star Trek:TNG where Data wanted to learn to be funny. Unfortunately, he got a holodeck Joe Piscopo to advise him and it didn't work out.

Humor is usually ingrained in a persons personality and therefore hard to deliberately develop. Like others said, it doesn't count if you didn't intend it as a joke.

The stuff that comes out of my mouth half the time has a lot of people in stitches - they don't know whether to laugh or cry from what they tell me.

Sometimes the response to what I say is just "OMG I can't believe you just said that " In those situtaions I've learned to smile and everyone then cracks up.

Truth is most of the time I'm not actually trying to be funny - it's just taken that way so I go with the flow.