"Aspies do not have a sense of humor"

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I have a sense of humor, it just has to be found... It is not a normal sense of humor.

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Well I think I have a sense of humor, other people think it is great if they share my sense of humor. While others do not understand why I find some things so funny, also many jokes that other folk make are not funny.

Perhapes rather than blaming my AS, their jokes might not be that funny ! I think with some comedy that it is a case of the "The Emperor's New Clothes" few NTs are willing to say that it is not funny but a more honest non-NT is willing to admit that they do not find it funny.

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I've been told I have a crude sense of humor. (Maybe because some things hit too close to home?) One teacher told me I should be a writer of satire. But I've never been accused of having no humor at all.

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I have AS and i think i have a good sense of humour.

I think it may be that the 'experts' have watched Aspies' reaction to things that most people would probably laugh at, seen that the Aspie didn't laugh, and therefore decided they had no sense of humor. Ignoring the possibility that they may simply have a different sense of humor.

Woodpecker:

This is another good point - maybe we don't feel obliged to laugh just because we're expected to or somebody wants us to. This often occurs to me when I watch a group of NT people, one makes the weakest, most predictable joke, and the others will (literally) scream with laughter as if it were the most original and witty remark in history.

I have a sense of humour, and in fact I can joke a lot. Saying Aspies don't really have a sense of humour is like saying that NTs and Aspies/Auties are completly different, it's just not true.

My sense of humor is what allowed to me to survive high school. I was the class clown in my 10th grade English class, I loved getting up in front of people and making them laugh. I always messed with the teacher, and everyone thought it was hilarious.

Needless to say, if I wasn't funny high school would have been an even worse experience for me.

When I was in elementary and middle school, I had trouble detecting whether if someone was intentionally teasing or joking around with me when he said or did something that was rude. I remember at a kids' summer camp, for instance, when I was crying when campers poured bottles of waters over me. I had both my shirt and pants on when that happened. Therefore, I didn't have a great sense of humor when I was a little kid.

As I entered high school, I tried to avoid taking stuff too seriously in order to increase my chances of building friendships with my peers. I always laugh when I watch the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN).

It depends on what an NT defines as having a sense of humor and what that humor is supposed to be for them. I have good sense of humor ,but just because I don't understand all forms of humor doesn't mean that I lack humor!! I have been the only person in the room to not laugh at a joke before. I am good with word play, puns and making jokes out of figures of speech! I can impersonate funny sounding voices and do some impressions.

I think the issue here is that being rude or having fun at someone's expense really ISN'T funny. At least, people should be really careful with that kind of humor. Kids, in general, can be very cruel with that kind of thing. I have never gotten enjoyment out of watching people being hurt or humiliated (I HATE those "candid camera" type shows, and stuff like that.) I refuse to laugh at it.

When I was about 10-11, I hung around with the 3 similar aged girls who lived on my street. One of them would say things (to any of us, not just me), like, "You have a funny-looking nose. Ha ha! Just kidding." Or "You sound like a weirdo when you laugh! Ha! Just kidding!" That got really old. And if the person got upset, she'd accuse them of being uptight, because she was only joking. I always thought, if you don't mean it, then don't say it. Saying "just kidding" or "just joking" doesn't make it right, or funny.


Thankfully, most people have gotten past that by the time they are about 25.

IIRC, old Hans spoke of a sadistic streak, which he called it such as the person with Asperger's knew exactly how to get to someone with words. I have this, and it is related to humour.

For example, a kid was teasing me on a basketball court for some reason (I think it was for being so pale); I replied with, 'Have you reached 5 ft. in height yet, so and so?' Said individual was very self-conscious of his height, and the words just killed him inside, not to mention that everyone on the court was laughing. I've done something similar several times.

I get the thought, couldn't the NTs just use their Theory of Mind to figure out that other people might have a humour different from their own? - and that it can be real humour anyway?