AS and Humor

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So I am going to my first appointment with a psychologist to see if I have Aspergers (I AM SO HAPPY IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT!! !) (ha, funny how most teenagers are excited about being the best on the football team and stuff like that and I am excited about getting evaluated for autism lol) but anyway, I wanted to know if my type of humor is common among people with aspergers.

So basically in class at school I am two types of people:
1.The shy quiet one who is anxious and worried
2.The extremely obnoxious, loud, annoying class clown type kid

Basically if I have a friend in the class and I feel comfortable, I am so annoying it is ridiculous. Like I'll keep going on about jokes or exaggerate or make sarcastic comments about things other kids/the teacher said/did and most kids find me annoying but some who have a similar taste in humor find me funny, but even the say I go to far with it. And I actually will laugh with other people and have that reciprocity with them, with humor. But again, I constantly go too far and get hyper with teasing and humor and many end up annoyed.

So are there a decent amount of aspies who are like that? BTW I would generalize my humor as dark, dirty, pranky, (I don't think that is a word) and "wait what? type humor.

Yeah, I've got a similar sense of humour.

I like all sorts of comedy, but what I want most of all is to be surprised. The last thing that really got me good was the recent Three Stooges movie - I really wasn't expecting such oldschool slapstick to work in a modern context.

You probably should tone down the clowning around in class. It's very easy to get carried away and to make a complete fool of yourself. And be careful with the puns, they can be polarizing.

pete barbutti cracked me up

I am just the first type and rarely make jokes tho I will usually laugh along with others. I really hate it when people make nasty jokes at others expense. I won't laugh at that. Though I'm more outgoing when I'm with people I know and am comfortable with it's not such a big difference as it seems to be with you.

i'm not shy or anxious, but i'm not loud. i don't have much of a sense of humor, but i've worked on it and understand good jokes even if they don't make me laugh. i often share funny stuff on facebook.

stuff tickles me every day, often several times a day. I consider this a lifesaver.

I was exactly the same way in school. I was either painfully shy or I was the class clown and loud and obnoxious. There was no middle ground for me. But when I look back at myself now, I realize that my obnoxiousness in class, was in a sense, me lashing out and reaching for acceptance from my peers because I wasn't accepted elsewhere. I was bullied my entire life, by both students and teachers. And in those moments, and only those moments, when I was the class clown, I was accepted.

I never had sufficiently quick and imaginative wit to be the class clown

Yeah I know I need to, but it's like I get so hyper it's ridiculous and I have to make a mental effort to stop.
It's funny too because it's like I'll be loud and funny but if that same person I made laugh try's to have a normal conversation with me, I fall apart

I get hyper

My behaviour when I was at school was very similar to that described by the OP until the age of about 13-14, after which I became very withdrawn.

From the age of 11 up until roughly 16, I was the complete goofball in my class. I would always make unintelligible sounds to amuse my peers, but this stupidity merely serves as a detriment to my studies. Indubitably a post-adolescence diagnosis did not help me in this regard. However, my behaviour as a mature teenager and now as an adult has been the complete antithesis of the aforementioned tomfoolery exhibited in my younger years. I seldom utter more than a word when in the company of others now. The transition to adulthood has been anything but easy.

I'm almost 33 years old and am still a "class clown" at work & it's a ton of fun. I'm completely professional with some individuals - time and a place and all - but joke around with most of my coworkers like I would with high school buddies. Tons of jokes, comedic sexual innuendo (I'm the only gay guy there) etc. I work at an upscale brew pub/restaurant, and had one previous coworker say that if work were the movie Waiting I would be Ryan Reynolds. I took that as a total compliment.

There are also a lot of coworkers who now speak their minds about dirty jokes and things that they might otherwise be more reserved about, especially if they assumed I would take offence to gay jokes etc. Now they know better & realize I'd be offended if they skipped out on an opportunity for us all to share a laugh! One server, female around 40ish, cracked a bit of a gay joke the other night and other servers scolded her for being out of line kind of thing but her and I are on the same wavelength and shared a laugh both at her joke AND at our coworkers disapproval of it.

I was a bit like that at school and at college. I was more shy around boys, so if I was in a big class with more obnoxious boys, I was quiet and shy. Or if I was in a class of snobby and/or extroverted girls, I would be even MORE shy.

But when I was in a smaller group with other kids with learning difficulties and others I fitted in with more, I was more of a class clown. I screwed around, made humorous jokes, wasn't afraid to talk in front of the class, showed off to impress the other kids, and just enjoyed myself more.

I was an extremely idiotic, unfunny and inappropriate 'class clown' type, but evolved overtime into the true class clown.

I actually began to put more thought into my humor.

Most people considered my unfunny even if I tried to be the class clown.