laughing at innapropate times

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And a lot of it, I think my sense of humor is just different. I remember watching RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER or something around age 11. Most of the slapstick I just thought was stupid. But one part struck me as funny, the inspector says, "This hotel is deteriorating...[pause] rapidly." Seemingly unaware that he's the cause of the deterioration!

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It also seems like I was more keen on plotting (and good plots and cool set-ups) than many of the kids my same age.

Thinking back on my childhood, I can recall some things I found immensely funny.

*My best friend's puppy coming inside his grandmother's house and pooing on her clean carpet.

*My grandmother washing a throw rug (not realizing it was paper-backed), and it became a pile of mush in the washing machine---talk about a mess.

*A woman's high heel going into a floor grate in a theatre (heating duct grate), and her high heel breaking off---talk about an awkward walk to her seat.

*In the same theatre seeing someone with their popcorn and cola sitting down in the over springy seats, and then getting tossed upward with their popcorn and cola spilling all over them.

*Seeing a person slip on a potato skin on the floor of a restaurant.

*In a restaurant a waitress slipped in spilled beer and rammed into a wall of dishes---all the dishes came crashing down. Luckily no one was hurt. But talk about language.

I see these laughing inappropiately topics a lot here (even some from myself) it seems to be a common Aspie thing. We show emotion differently and laughing at the wrong time fits this. I laugh when the little kids (nephew/little sisters) are usually being scolded. I find scolding stupid I'M GOING TO WHIP YOUR ASS IF YOU DON'T STOP! (IMO is hilarious I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU OUTSIDE AND BEAT YOU! (Ya my older sister my parents *are such good parents* When someone injures themselves I at times find it funny depending on the case. At the fair I assumed Madison (9 yr. old) was laughing since the ride was scary but dad yelled at me to stop laughing since she fell getting off the ride. I'm always doing this sadly.

I also get the questions "What so funny?" "What are you smiling about?".

I think literal thinking has something to do with such humorous scoldings as "I'M GOING TO WHIP YOUR ASS IF YOU DON'T STOP!" from the above example.

The remake of Nightmare on Elm Street.

That's all I have to say. The movie theaters, I could almost swear the whole theatre was hearing me laugh the whole entire time. It was just to damn funny.

Yes- all the time. I smirk if someone is angry at me or telling me off, I can't help that, it's too funny and the harder I try to act serious the bigger my smile grows. I also smile or laugh when I am trying to break the news someone has died- I must seem heartless, insensitive and cruel like people assume I am, but not at all- it's just like my emotional wiring is wrong and I respond inappropriately when I really don't mean to. Although I do actually think people take some things way too seriously for no logical or sane reason, which actually does make me genuinely find it funny...

They say laughter is the best medicine, but at the wrong time and place it puts you in danger of some serious repercussions...

A little over 10 years ago my great-grandmother died.

My grandmother's reaction:
My grandfather's reaction:
My mother's reaction:
My reaction:
Everyone's reaction to my reaction:

It sucks, but at least my family's used to it.

To add to my point, I worked as a...I don't know the correct term, basically I worked for a funeral...organizing...thing, my job was to get the flowers, chairs, etc. in place and help carry the coffins.
Anyway, before the guests arrived my coworkers and I would joke about death, it got very dark sometimes, even by my standards. Once the guests started arriving I kept thinking about jokes and there were times where I had to isolate myself because I couldn't stop laughing. Eventually this was the reason for my termination, I just couldn't keep a straight face.
People's reactions to death are just incredibly amusing to me, I don't know why.

^^^ But I can see why the big dramatic sad reactions would be amusing - she was your great grandmother. I'm assuming she had a long full life. Did everyone expect her to live forever? Sure it's sad she's moving on but it wasn't exactly unexpected. She wasn't taken tragically young. At some point you know it's going to happen because that is the cycle of life.

Sorry if that sounds callous but in many cultures, a death such as this would conclude with a celebration of her long life.

I don't think your reaction was strange at all.

I was terrible for this as a kid.

I can remember many occasions in primary school on which I'd get into trouble for laughing hysterically during lesson time, to use an example. Sometimes, I'd just get carried away with my thoughts, and on other times some seemingly non-amusing thing from outside (the word 'mop' was a common one...) would set it off.

There were also a good few times that I'd laugh audibly in a situation in which it would be seen as cruel, or ill-mannered at least. Among the more memorable of these instances would be two public scoldings from my mother, resulting from my uncontrollable giggling at dwarfs as we passed them in the street or shopping centre...