Sarcasm

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As an Aspie, I have come to learn that my number one social impediment is sarcasm. Tonight, when talking to a lady at church, I mentioned to her how much of a social impediment it is for me, at work and in pretty much any social sphere. She pointed out that this is in large part to the Scottish culture.

Having been born here, lived here and been a part of this culture all my life, I never thought about this but it's true. It made me realise how difficult this culture is for someone to live in, who has my personal presentation with AS. We talked about differences in sarcasm in different parts of the British Isles, and in different parts of America (well I know more about America) - for example Northern Ireland has a lot of sarcasm. The Republic of Ireland has a lot of sarcasm. And within England... there may be less of a sarcastic culture in some parts, which suits me, but cities like Newcastle and Liverpool are well known for having distinct cultures with distinctly high levels of sarcasm in their cultures.

Then there's America... I'd like to reference this thread (rather than explain its contents again). The contents of the post may well be explained by sarcasm in the culture of different places.

These are just observations I've made and thoughts I've had. Perhaps because of a map-like mind I am even more interested now in the differences in sarcasm in different places' cultures.

I am an immensly sarcastic person, my family hates it outta me, cuz they think my 5 yold brother might pick it up... But sarcasm is one of the things i have great difficulty with other people using...... I dont know whether that is the AS, or something else, but I believe it to be the AS.

I pick up sarcasm easily but try not to use it much. It's the lowest form of wit.

I used to not get it at all, now I fully do and even am too sarcastic for my own good at times..

I am the most sarcastic person I know. Granted, I do not know everyone. However, I have yet to meet my match. Of course, I am hated for it. Fortunately I have other talents that make me somewhat useful at times.

I can be rather sarcastic and can pick it up when people change their tone of voice drastically when using it or if someone I know really well uses it (knowing their personnality and being able to see if something they said was WAY out of character or not). Other than that, I never know if someone is trying to insult me, is being a jerk, or is just being sarcastic.

Sarcasm is essentially my native tongue. I love it.

I can understand most of it, if it's been used before.
I tend to take plenty of things literally. One girl in my kindergarten class got in an argument with me, and made the stupid response "Bite me", so I did.

I never been vary good with sarcasm,
but my latist boss uses it all the time to joke around,
it took me forever to get used too it, and it drives him nuits as well me making constant puns,
we drive each other nuts, BUT, we seem to like each other and get along great.
many times though I still can not tell if he is joking or not.
and some of his jokes are totaly not funny to me but I say nothing and keep working,
OR, shoot back a pun related to his topic and in some way let him know it was not funny in a fun sort of way.

I am extremely sarcastic. But when someone else uses it, I always have to ask them if they are being sarcastic or not because I never can tell...

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