Do you laugh when someone gets hurt?

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Yay!! Im not the only one to laugh when some one is hurt! But I will laugh if they got hurt and they are ok and I will laugh if they really hurt bad. I dont mean to I just do. Its like I cant help but smile and laugh when some one is hurt. Not that I excatly find it funny but thats just what I do

I live in Buffalo, NY seeing people wipe out on the ice in the winter is f#cking hilarious. I peed a little when I saw a co-worker who was taking out a big pot of chicken soup to be thrown out in the outside dumpster and he took a spill on the ice covering himself from his crotch to his neck in old soup. He was just laying there on his back laughing at me laughing at him. I had to sit down on the stoop because I was having trouble breathing.

I laugh at accidents that are exaggerated pratfalls.

Only if it isn't serious. If someone is actually hurt that isn't funny at all.

I suspect in some cases, it's just a reaction to the stress of a situation. Someone laughing at an intensely tragic situation does not mean they find it humorous. There's a big difference between laughing hysterically during an emotionally intense situation and schadenfreude.

When I was almost 2, I had something fall on me. When my mom went to pick me up, there was a cut over my eye that was bleeding so badly that she thought I had actually lost my eye. I was rushed to the hospital, and every time my mom saw my face (the area around the eye had swollen pretty bad) she'd break out laughing.

Laughing during a tragedy is probably just part of an emotional overload. My mom wasn't entertained by other's misfortune and was no fan of slapstick (like Three Stooges type comedies, where the characters are constantly being subjected to insults and physical pain). I think it was a combination of horror, relief and delayed reaction that triggered the uncontrollable laughter.

Laughter is not always a great indicator of whether someone finds a situation hilarious or not. Laugh tracks are notorious for getting people to laugh at jokes that otherwise wouldn't get a dry chuckle. Most people don't find getting whacked in the humerus comedic, but there's a reason they call it the funny bone.

Yep, I laugh when people fall over in some cases, sometimes when the fall looks bad I don't. I wait to see if the person is okay and then I laugh. So I guess I'm kind of normal on this one.

I don't laugh when someone gets slightly hurt and people think I'm weird and robotic for not doing so.

I don't take pleasure in other peoples pain. The answer would be no.

Only on cartoons, Jackass and the shows where people send in their clips of themselves getting hurt.

If they deserved it.

People laugh at me when I get hurt. Last month I banged my head so hard on an open cupboard door, and my dad and my brother really laughed at me.

Also when I slipped over on ice last November, a crowd of youths were talking by and they all laughed. I don't think it would be that funny if it was one of THEM who fell over.

No.

It is good to know that, for a few AS people, the laughing at misfortune might be yet another confused emotion. I will be more tolerant of that.

But, for NT folks, this behavior is sociopathic or sadistic. The NT goal is to "save face", climb the ladder, move up in the class system, be admired, etc. My analysis of NTs when they laughed concludes that this is yet another pecking-order, us-vs-them maneuver. And, that is sick.

I only laugh at boy's injuries (ie. hurting themselves and pretending its not a big deal, skate boarders grinding on a pole and landing wrong).

Ditto.

Sometimes I think I laugh as a way to cope with unpleasant situations.

Not really.
Sometimes, I find myself laughing or smiling in situations where I am meant to be serious, like if someone is berating me for something, or if there is a tragic scene in a film or tv series.

But I don't recall ever laughing in real life at someone being physically hurt.
I tend to try and help, or in many cases, to find myself not knowing what to do, thus hiding.

No, I rush in to ask if they're okay and help them up.

In what situation does anyone deserve to be hurt?