Jokes and Humour

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Hey,

Just wondering if anyone here who clearly has a sense of humour - you know what you find funny - however you find that no-one else ever find the things that you think are funny? Or maybe the things others feel are funny you just don't get? Which means you rarely get to share a joke with someone, and maybe you things you think are funny are considered childlike, inappropriate or socially unacceptable?

Do people have this type of experience?

Once on christmass I got even accuesed of being drunk after I got a historical laugh. No one knows what was so funny. Nor can I explain it. But it was funny.

Some times people don't find my humour funny. I think some times they just don't get the references or it's too politically incorrect for them. There are a select group of people with whom I can jokes around with, and they get all my jokes.

I have a family of Aspies, adult daughter and adult son, and the three of us share the same sense of humor and get the same jokes. My NT boyfriend has a completely different sense of humor. He doesn't get our jokes and many times we completely don't understand his.

I have a dry (and a bit dark at times) sense of humor.
I rarely use sarcasm, but I joke a lot, though most of the times people can't get my jokes, or just don't find funny things I laugh at.
Like, if someone says "tell me something" I can reply saying "something", or if someone says "ha" I can reply saying "B".

Yesterday I thought I'd do a little experiment by putting the following up on an OK Cupid dating profile, and seeing if I get any laughs from it.

"I'm looking to meet a frail, elderly dear, someone like my grandmother's 100 year old mate Winifred, who can't walk, can't talk, and can't eat - so if you've got a gran like that feel free to give 'em my number. "

This is the kind of humur I am naturally drawn towards - the ridiculous. Any comments, or does anyone else find this sort of thing funny?

I usually get most jokes that other people do but I tend not to get other forms of social interactions (in general).

I can find humor in pretty much anything, so yea.. it can be "socially unacceptable" at times.

i got so tired of having to diagram my jokes that i gave up. for the most part.

laughter is therapeutic. so as long as i am laughing i am always happy about it

laughter saved the life of at least one person, the late norman cousins.

my humor is very much tightly packed inside me, and no one else gets it.

last week, i was in a sandwich shop, and before i was asked what i wanted, i overheard a woman talking to another woman, and i heard her say "he wouldn't leave me alone on friday, so when i saw him walking toward me yesterday i just did a 360 and walked off" and i collapsed into a convulsion of laughter (at the moment the woman behind the counter asked me what i wanted).

i rapidly walked out of the shop attempting to suppress my laughter, and after i had calmed down, i walked back in and tried to resume my ordering process, and the woman behind the counter said "what was so funny" and i said " i just got a joke i was told yesterday" and that triggered another laughing fit, and i again had to leave, but that time i went home.

i think the counter people in that shop think i am insane now, and the next time i go there, i will probably laugh at their worried expressions and have to leave again without ordering.

laughing is a kind of curse to me. they have no idea why i was laughing and i could never tell them because people do not think in the way i do, and if i tried to say why i was laughing, i would go into another laughing fit when i saw their puzzled expressions.

the woman who said she did a 360 was to blame really.

by first looking up a flexible definition of humor. [the suspension of disbelief] then a few physiology books about the types of humor, only to realize that this thread is hilarious. And to tell our jokes to the NT around us only requires that you explain your joke in a way that is also a joke.

ex.
-"waz-up"

- "a preposition to show relative altitude"

-"what!? dawg, you trip-en."

-"well you asked. [contemplative pause] it sure is hard to walk with all 4 paws in my mouth."

give it a minuet or two and then they will start to get it.

the rules of how to tell the jokes is:
1) Do not stop to explain it.
2) practice when there are no people to hear it
3) do not repeat jokes in front of people.
4) try to keep a strait face when telling a joke.
5) jokes that imply an insult of audience should not be told unless you know it will not be offensive.

i have a very dry, dark sense of humor. i like word puns, and can actually catch sarcasm most of the time (others laughing helps. if it's just me, it's hit and miss)

especially if it is a joke on something I am interested in (star wars, star trek, doctor who, and JROTC jokes that are based on facts)