Unusual sense of humour?

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I don't know if it's unusual, I usually find things funny that other people find funny. I have been told that I have a dry sense of humor whatever that means. I'd say my dad has a particularly dark sense of humor so that has probably influenced myself as well.

I very often find all kinds of things hilarious and usually manage to keep them to myself because the situation or thing I find funny is entirely inappropriate. But I also have a running commentary of funny things I say outloud. I deliver these jokes in this dry tone, which I also find amusing. I love the rare person who gets me.

A couple of years ago, my partner accused me of being a negative person, which really shocked me. Then after watching myself for awhile, I realized that if he was taking all these ridiculous, hilarious things I said as *serious*, then of course he'd think I was negative. :) Now that he knows I joke a lot, he laughs at a pretty high percentage of my humor. My girlfriend has always got my jokes and I love her for it.

Lately, I've decided I don't care what anyone else thinks of puns, and I'm letting them free again, just like I did as a kid.

And as dark as my humor gets, I usually don't find *real* tragedies funny, especially if humans or animals have been hurt. Fictional tragedies can remind me that real horrors are going on every second, and if I let myself think about that, I'll feel a way I don't want to. So I let the hilarious running commentary play. It's almost like I have a choice: Feel amused or depressed. As a result, I really love horror and black comedy. I can joke about dead puppies, but this week a news story involving a real puppy being thrown at a bike gang.. It was a real puppy, so while I wanted to find the story funny like everyone else did, all I could think about was whether the poor puppy was ok and how terrible it must have been for it.

Give me imaginary puppy trauma any day and I will lol.