Do you laugh at things that are not considered funny?

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I used to think smiling or laughing were some type of “default emotion” for me to show because I have smiled or laughed when I was happy, nervous, embarrassed and scared.

When I was walking over to my relatives at my aunty’s funeral a few years ago, I felt like I was laughing a little bit, which was only because I always feel nervous when I walk over to people I know (including my parents and sisters). I felt awkward about it because I worried it would look like I was happy my aunty had died.

Another time, I accidentally laughed because my sister hurt her sore foot on my suitcase, and I felt bad that she hurt it. She wasn’t happy with me because she thought I laughed because I thought it was funny, when I didn’t think it was.

I can remember funny things that have happened and then either laugh or smile at them. No one can see what I’m thinking, so if anyone sees that, they might think I’m laughing or smiling at them.

I can't think of many examples, (one being when people almost trip over their feet but don't fall) but I'll see something happen and get mental images that makes it so much more funny. I did this a lot more as a kid but it definitely happens nowadays, as well, but I tend to stifle the laughter when it happens publicly.

Sometimes I laugh out of nervousness when I see something unsettling.

When I think of something I like, I laugh and smile. It doesn't have to be humorous, just interesting to me.

I do laugh for the wrong reasons. Almost half the time if I'm not in the mood to bother myself with restraints.

It could be for various reasons; from do laughing out of any emotion really -- either usual joy, annoyance, or nervousness. To just associate things wrongly like some drunkard and deem things that aren't funny as 'funny', and funny enough to actually laugh at it.

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I laugh at things that are amusing to me. If someone forces me to explain, they don't understand at first because it might be 3-4 thoughts away from what we both saw happen.

I more often find that I don't find a lot of things to be funny that other people do.

I smile when I am nervous or if someone says something that makes me uncomfortable, especially if someone is not talking about their personal experience. If they are and it is "bad", I tend to feel bad for them. If it is someone else, I'm just uncomfortable.

I tend to laugh from vulgarisms. They look funny for my nature. But I do not want the usage of obscene language because it is sinful.

I had two memorable attacks of paragelia (uncontrollable, inadequate laughter) when I was younger.
One case was when I was about 4 years old in church. I reminded myself advertisement of dish soap named "Pur" or "Kop" and started to laugh quite loudly, uncontrollably and inadequately. My father took me to the place about 1 km from the church and hit me, probably in buttocks. I might cry due to it.
Second paragelia attack was associated with hearing about a girl who received illness in hospital (maybe HIV virus). I started to laugh uncontrollably and loudly in the presence of my father. I did not want to laugh, but the symptom was stronger than me and I laughed obviously. My father punished me quite strongly due to it, also by hitting, maybe in legs by belt. It was painful.

With me its internal thought. I will think of a joke Morey Amsterdam told on the Dick Van Dyke show fifty years ago, and break out laughing.

In my job I count stuff on shelves of stores for an inventory company with lightening speed. Cant converse with others. So I only have my train of thought to entertain me. Sometimes I will laugh at stuff from years ago.

The other day I was counting in some store, and a young lady salesperson from the store was standing near by.

We weren't talking to each other and I was focused on counting, but suddenly I broke out laughing out loud.

That laughter came out the end of a train thought that started with the realization that I might have been messing up slightly with task I was doing at the moment.(counting peaches with pears so to speak), but because it was hard to tell because the stuff was arranged kinda sloppy, so if they called me on it I could claim "those things looked the same at the time", so in other words "I would have 'plausible deniability", and how that term "plausible deniability" was something I got from the Watergate tapes of John Dean and Richard Nixon from 1971, and about how its such a great useful phrase …"plausible deniability"... basically it means "lies you can get away with because they seem believable under the circumstances", and that's when I started laughing out loud.

The girl, with a stern look, asked me "what so funny?". If she had been a fellow employee of the inventory company I might have actually explained the long train of thought to her, but since she worked for our client telling it would imply that I was messing up at that moment. So ...I just said "its a looooong story. Sumpin I just thought of that has nothing to do with right now..".

I guess that it was itself an example of....plausible deniability!

Usually I do not laugh when "most people" are laughing

When I do laugh, it is not as loud as them

Some precious lil "people" act like every slightest thing is the funniest thing in the world

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Even when I say something, often it is not a joke, but ass holes laugh anyways

And when it is a joke, they laugh out of control and they are annoying