Inappropriate laughter. Does anyone else stuggle with this?

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Does anyone else struggle with laughing at something when it is not appropriate to laugh?

Here's an example: I was about 11 years old and watching TV with my Mom and Dad. A sad, dramatic scene came on where a family was running around frantically outside while their house was on fire. I thought it was the funniest scene ever. I burst out laughing long and hard. Dad was so upset he abruptly turned the TV off. I got a 5 minute lecture from both of them about how normal people don't laugh at things like that.

I still struggle with laughing at dramatic/sad scenes on TV. I'm a lot better at controlling it now, because the times I have let it slip, I usually get a negative reaction from people around me.

I've caused myself social difficulties laughing nervously around people I don't know in the past. I've cut way down on what I see as an honest expression of my state of mind since it came to my attention that people took it as I was laughing at them or making light of the situation though.

I don't laugh at inappropriate times when I'm supposed to be sad or whatever, but I do laugh at strange things that aren't funny to others.
Also I have been accused of laughing at people when nervous. I don't know why some took it so personally though, because it wasn't like I was snickering at them, it was more of a warm, friendly laugh. I mean I get paranoid about people laughing, but not if they know me. There was this woman at my old job who often laughed when she said hello to me, but even for a socially anxious person I did not take that personally, in fact I liked it. I felt like I made her smile, which turned into a warm, friendly laugh. She was a really nice person.

It's when strangers laugh near me that I get paranoid about. Sometimes strangers can be more insensitive than people you know.

I do sometimes...
Half of it involves intrusive yet funny thoughts/memories. The other half is either just off expressions or just being odd in general.

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OMG, YES! But, laughter would fall under emotional regulation, I think.

I've laughed when people fell, choked, were terrified. I also laugh hysterically at certain noises that hit a particular high pitch.

I've gotten much better with age. And with experiencing for myself some of the things I thought were funny (specifically falling down). Sometimes, I just laugh in my head and focus on controlling my face and keeping my mouth shut. It's not fun, but it gets better with practice.

People laugh all the time when you fall over or bang your head, but it suddenly ain't funny when it happens to them. I don't laugh when I see someone fall, because I don't want to embarrass them.

I laugh very easily so I am guilty of this.

Sometimes I remember something funny and start laughing in an otherwise serious or neutral situation. People assume that I am laughing at the situation when really, I'm laughing at something completely unrelated and get weird thoughts.

Once I was in tutoring and I began so laugh a little because of thinking of something unrelated. The tutor asked if I had a cold a bit annoyed because she assumed it was either a sneeze or a laugh.

When I was in elementary school, we were watching a documentary about the Incas and I began thinking of something unrelated and started laughing, and people started staring at me.

There was one class clown in high school who would disrupt the class, and the teacher told us we were being just as bad as him if we laughed at his jokes because we're only encouraging it. Those of us who suck it holding in laughter in the first place are designated troublemakers I guess. :/

I laugh at things that make me feel good, but aren't traditionally humorous. Every time I think of my favorite tennis players, I am happy and laugh when I think of something they said. I also laugh at cute things like cat videos.

Only sometimes. If someone has a narrow escape from sonething, I tend to laugh a little as a sort of "Haha you had a close one there" sort of thing. It is a way of reacting to the shock but it isn't the same as normal laughter. Yet some people do not understand this and have been angry that I laughed. My Dad occasionally told me off for it as he could be very serious at times. He was not alaays serious, but foe me, it is that when I see something when I know the person has escaped and is ok, then the laughter comes out but is in a very different way to a normal laugh. More of an exclamation of the event.
My second proper girlfriend used to give cute little laughs when she was nurvous. She has asperges.

I have had nervous laughter at things that were clearly unfunny. I think of how I would feel if I were attacked in this way, probably some kind of odd "fight or flight" response.

I LAUGH at danger!

The above statement is said in humour.

I have read about a condition called Pseudo Bulbar Affect (PSA), a side effect of traumatic brain injury or multiple sclerosis. It causes laughing (and crying) at inappropriate times.

Plenty of neurotypical extrovert lil dipshits act like every slightest thing is the most hilarious thing in the world



They are gasping for air, they are laughing so hard

Not many things are funny.
They are not that funny
Nor should they be



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I also laugh at inappropriate times.
Sad and dramatic scenes in movies/tv can be really funny to me. First of all, I already know that they are actors and the scene is fake so it's not really happening. It can also be quite bad acting (over-acting) which makes it funny.

I can also begin to laugh when I experience a certain kind of stress, for example funerals. Nothing funny about it, I'm not happy or anything like that, the laughter just comes out. Some sort of coping is my best guess. I hold it in or hide i the best I can so I don't offend anybody, and I'm open about it to people close to me so they know and don't take offense.

I get close; meaning, I do find certain things or situations funny when they're not meant to be, but I refrain from laughing. My autistic niece does laugh out loud at things that are supposed to be sad or somber. It's hard sometimes when she does that because when she's asked to stop it does nothing or gets worse.