Do they keep your humour too absurd?

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One thing that makes me hard to approach for some people is, that my humour tends to be too much for them. I can't help it, but I really think that taboos and universally serious things like depression, death and a large variety of absurd things just are stuff I can talk about with humorous tune. Only some people have openly told me, that I go too far, and many are clearly disturbed by my joking.
Do you others tend to make fun of thing you shouldn't?

I sometimes had people get mad at me when I was younger. We learn by bouncing off of each other.

This discribes me perfectly.

My "dark" sense of humor has gotten me in some trouble before. Usually with school principals, but most recently with my former employers and the police. Every time I find out I'm in trouble, I just think "Here we go again."

I'm the same way,I get alot of when I say certain things.I think people get the impression you're "cold hearted",which makes no sense to me because I usually turn something that unnerves me into a joke so that it doesn't bother me so much .

I can relate to that. I sometimes do not know when to pull the brakes on what most peple consider taboo topics.

Yes, I agree with the OP as well.

People rarely get my sense of humor. Once I started laughing hysterically about a FedEx truck that crashed into a USPS truck. No one else appreciated the irony in that.

Thats actually really funny

Well, Apollyon, it made me laugh!

Now, if only a UPS or DHL truck had come along a few moments later, and not seen the tangle in time...

I think people are more focused about the truck drivers getting injured or worse, rather than the irony of two competitors crashing. I can see the irony in that, but the possibility of people getting injured is more of a focus.

That seems to be much less funny. I'd just laugh on the way to the crash site to see if anyone needed any pre-911 help.

I think for that to be true, the highway systems wouldn't be clogged from drivers slowing down to see accidents. I've noticed no one ever pulls off to the shoulder... They just crawl by, hoping to see some carnage.

I find irony pretty funny, but I also find puns to be funny too. No one ever laughs at those either. Then I explain it to them, and they say, "Oh, I get it. I just don't think It's funny."

But yet I find most NTs laugh at things that aren't funny...

I've got to agree; that almost made me spit my milk out.

I have a nasty sense of humor too and I find most people's sense of humor bland. Not sure if it has to do with AS - I remember some people who could actually enjoy it. I think it has to do with intelligence and education making it possible to take some distance from established paradigms; I remember certain psychologists being capable of that or classmates who were into many things like music, martial arts, reading, etc - then classmates who just tried to fit in socially were kinda dull.
I usually feel I have to be careful and hold back a certain portion of what occurs to me humor-wise.

Another weird thing I do is to be on the verge of humor with my entire attitude or body language - for example by the way I pick a very specific paper and throw it in the bin. I also seem to laugh at whimsical examples made by uni professors - either before everyone else does or in spite of everyone else remaining serious; it's like I immediately know where they are going or an idea in a certain context just triggers a lot of things.

My sense of humour has tended to be quite dark as well, and it's one of the things I've got to cover up the most when in public.
I remember in elementary school losing my agenda, which had all sorts of really twisted, disturbing doodles in it. I figured I'd find it, but a third grade student found it instead and, upon witnessing the content, turned it into the principal.
And the principal called me in to her office and we had a very long talk. She assured me that in high school I'd be expelled for my warped sensibilities, but actually most of my high school teachers appreciated my morbid side.