Anyone else laugh when getting yelled at.

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It's happened quite a few times. Some yelling and taking themselves too seriously and I can't help myself but to laugh. Anybody else have this problem? (I usually find things in general pretty funny)

I always laugh at the most inappropriate times. Yeah, especially when people take themselves way too seriously. However, when I get yelled at by a boss or something I usually cry. And I'm a nineteen year old guy so it's pretty humiliating. I think a lot of people think I'm crazy. >_<

Yeah, it just depends on whether or not I feel guilty, but when people 'lose it', it's pretty funny. Adam Sandler based his whole career on it!

No, I'm a crier. But if the conditions are right, crying will turn to laughter. I wish I laughed instead of cried, though

It depends. If I'm really upset about whatever it is that I'm getting yelled at for then I break down in tears. But if it's my stepfather going on yet another rant about how the house isn't perfectly spotless then I can't help but start grinning and maybe giggling, which just ticks him off even more. :C I always apologize and tell him I can't help it but augh.

I also got in trouble in second grade or so for laughing too much. I just find really weird things funny.

I wish I could do this, laugh at yellers.

I rage and tantrum when yelled at, I smash, cry,
and scream.

The yellers then look "shocked" at my responce,
I tell them, it is how I react, and that is that.

I've done it before. I once got yelled at at my old job in Montana for leaving my bloody tampon in the trash. My boss yelled at me to go and get it and wrap it in toilet paper. I started laughing because she was freaking out over something that was small and trash is where tampons belong and one of the housemen had problems with seeing a bloody tampon in the trash. I am laughing again as I'm typing this.
I was just laughing that day and my boss yelled it was common sense to wrap it in toilet paper when throwing it away.


I also find it funny when my husband's voice goes high pitched when he is upset.

TMI Alert


Oh my.

It's human nature to not want to see (or smell ) other people's bodily fluids, particularly after it's been sitting around cultivating bacteria.

If you learn no other social skill, please learn this one and take it to heart. Trust me. There is nothing more revolting that suddenly being confronted with a bloody tampon left behind by some stranger. You've got to got to got to keep the bloody tampons and pads completely out of view. Wrap them up in a bunch of toilet paper or a paper towel, or whatever it takes to ensure that no human being has to see any bit of it. Mummify those bad boys.

The same goes for disposable diapers and baby wipes, or anything with poop on it, or snot, or something you chewed up and spat out, or any substance that came from your body and can be smeared on a tissue. All of it falls under the category of "Don't Let People See It." But it's doubly important with the menstrual stuff because there are all kinds of cultural taboos about menstruation.

You might not be revolted by seeing that stuff, but if you are not, then you are an exception to the rule. Most people would be completely disgusted by seeing a bloody tampon in the trash. If it's one of those little trash cans that's mounted in the stall right next to the toilet, then anyone else who comes to use the toilet as to see it and smell it. When you go to potty train your kid, you'll notice that that those bins are right at a toddler's eye level, and the first thing they do it reach out and touch. The people who empty the trash and clean the restroom have an unpleasant enough job as it is, and don't make much money. Don't make them have to see something like that.

I'm telling you all this because I care.


*By the way, even the worst toilet can handle the actual tampon. It's the applicators that you shouldn't flush. At least that's always been my assumption.

And I had no problem cleaning the restrooms. I have had to see tampons and pads when I take out the sanitary bags. It doesn't bother me to see a used diaper in the trash. I guess I am gifted. I have always had a thing with bodily fucntions and liked seeing people blowing their noses. So why do people spit out in public then or don't bury their kleenex in the garbage?

I also don't see tampons being wrapped up in toilet paper in the santiary bags always. Is that the gray area of when you don't need to?

NTs do this too...its not just an AS thing.In high school, when a teacher yelled, sometimes the whole class would sit there snickering and giggling...It was a regular catholic school, so most of the gigglers and snickerers were NTs.

I laughed and smiled "inappropriately" all the time when I was a kid. I wasnt amused I just did it...mainly out of nervous tension. People always told me I always seemed so happy...Im kind of like a really toned down version of that lady in Mozart and the Whale that smiles all the time. I still cant help smiling when people tell me something bad...I just cant help it, I dont think its funny it just happens. I CANT however stand yelling. I have been guilty of yelling and temper tantrums but if someone yells at me I shut down and then I have a panic attack.

I also can't seem to stop smiling and my husband always thinks I knew he was just joking. I also laugh too when he tells me his feet hurt and when he tells me I have said something hurtful.

I did that as a kid.

I think it was because I got stressed by being yelled at and couldn't handle so I my brain switched from 'anxious mode' to laughing as a coping mechanism.

I have the opposite problem. I cry.

It happens. I can also laugh at other people yelling at eachother in my presence.
I laugh because it's hysterical. There's not much else to do until everyone calms down, so there's not often much to lose.
If the other people start to look dangerous to eachother, it might become more useful to intervene, of course, but the shouting is too hard to stop anyway.

There's the old silencing slap to the face, but I don't think that works as often as in the movies. At least not if they're already too riled up to be surprised by an impact.

Since I smile when I'm nervous (and I used to laugh and giggle) then of course I react in a happy or "tickled" way when somebody yells at me. I might smile because of stress or feeling anxious. But when I'm being criticized or verbally abused, then I react sadly and in most cases, I cry afterward.

One day I was sent home from work because my manager was fed up with me, so I (nervously) smiled and pleasantly apologized, clocked out and left. When I got in my car I started to tear up and by the time I got to my house I was sobbing incredibly much. I couldn't talk for the rest of that day and my feelings are still hurt from that time.

I somewhat agree, but the "human nature" comment you said there does not apply to me. I have been working as a hostess for several years and one of my host duties is cleaning out the bathrooms, which involves emptying the women's little trash bins in the stalls. I don't mind the look, although the smell can at times become overwhelming. Also I'll note that not every lady has the "courtesy" to wrap up their bad boys.

I guess that is just to let Spokane_Girl know that she's not alone, and to let elderwanda be aware that not everybody is grossed out by it. Oh, well.