How to stop laughing at wrong times?

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I know what is right what is wrong and what is serious? When my mom told about grandmothers and Alziehmars, I laughed real hard and I could not stop laughing for some reason. I knew it was really wrong to laugh at matters like this and that Alziehmars slowly strips away lives from people. Nevertheless, I still did it hard anyway and that almost got me into trouble. I have a very good heart and moral code but some wierd thing makes me still laugh at serious situations anyway. How do I finally put a stop to this involuntary laughing at matters that are not something to laugh about?

I find myself laughing at taboo subjects as well. I've always just kind of attributed it to me having a slightly morbid sense of humor sometimes. As far as how to stop it, I'm not really sure if there's a way to... it's kind of hardwired into the brain. I mean, you could probably throw a bunch of money at a therapist in order to "fix" the problem, but even then there's no guarantees.

You could force yourself not to laugh at anything, but that will turn yourself into a very dull person. Otherwise, by process of elimination, learn not to laugh at sensitive subject matters in the presence of people who might take offence. Unfortunately your grandmother seems to take offence at jokes on Alziemers while another person the same age may not take offence, so it's really difficult to determine who will take offence and who won't take offence. Maybe the solution next time you go out to a gathering, is to announce to everybody before you open your mouth, that you apologise in advance to everybody you're about to offend.

Ugh, I have this problem myself.

I have this problem as well. The only effective solution I have come up with is to remove myself from the situation and take a few deep breaths while I get it together again. I've also found that biting my tongue (not hard, just enough to keep myself grounded) helps.

I do this too. I try to leave the room if I can or at least hide my face so that people cannot see me laughing when I am in a situation in which laughing is considered inappropriate.

When other people report their minor misfortunes to me, I sometimes get mental imagery of them suffering that misfortune, and the mental image is sometimes funny to look at, so I automatically laugh and can't stop, and it looks like I am laughing at them, I can't stop this from happening, I think, because it is verry merry berry fast from their communication to my laughing.

What I want to know is who gets to decide when humor is inappropriate so I can find them and make them stop.

Humor is always appropriate because laughter is literally the best medicine there is. I mean laughter from the heart because you are able to glimpse the divine comedy for a moment. Humor is our 7th sense and the one we can least afford to lose. We may need to cultivate it, but we should never stop laughing. Honestly, I know what it's like to be laughed at. Rather than be oversensitive about it because the s---'s not funny from my perspective, I'd rather gain the ability to see the humor in my own tragedy. In other words, the times when we're least able to laugh is perhaps the most appropriate time to do it.

Just another way of looking at it

I do this a lot and tend to go through periods of a few weeks when it happens more than in the in between times.
I'm going through a period of uncontrollable laughter at the moment, and as an example, today I laughed for ten minutes when I was reading a hospital appointment letter for my husband. Reading about MRI scans is, I would think, neither taboo nor funny, but just random and bizarre. I've also laughed at a friend's washing machine blowing up and the word "splashi" today, and I think my poor husband has really had enough now!
I do stop when people shout at me, as that tends to make me flip to feeling tearful. I'm generally a very emotionally balanced and stoic person, with the exception of these episodes. Are these outbursts specific to autistic people or am I just not observing enough of them in neurotypical people?

I have this problem as well. When I thought something was funny, other people will take it very seriously. AND whenever other find something funny, I end up taking it very seriously and feel disgusted by it. I may have a different sense of humor, it seems, but I think it's just me.

I'm not sure what the best solution would be. I have the same problem. The more I try to stop laughing the more I laugh. At work one of my co workers wanted to give my manager a decorative bird cage for Christmas. All I could do is see her handing a bird cage with a bird in it to our manager. I was laughing so hard and the more she explained the cage to me the more I laughed. It still makes me laugh. I laugh inappropriately at meetings and other things as well. People just think I'm rude and insensitive.

Yeah I get this from time to time. I did it last week when my mum was trying to scold me, and it really wound her up.