"Aspies do not have a sense of humor"

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On my job we receive "garbage" form the costumers, and sort for reuse. We are not allowed to take things home, but life is not that simple

Once I was "looking" in a box of LP's to see if all of it was garbage, and the boss came by (I will make an English Version for WP only).

The conversation went something like this.

Boss(very angry):"Are you steeling?"
Me(very scared):" No sir,... I think it´s heavy metal."
He walked away, very confused.

Danish version:
Boss(Meget vred):"Er det kluns?"
Mig(meget forskrækket):" Nej da,... Det er noget man har på."
Han gik bort, meget forvirret.

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I don't share my humor much except with people I'm close to. My humor centers around stuff that's either really dumb or really dark/cutting/sarcastic. I don't like jokes in the middle of the spectrum as much, jokes that try not to be dumb but are.

Well, aspies frequently have a slightly odd sense of humor, but often a good one (though there's plenty of people who would argue against my puns being "good").

I have a good sense of humor. Odd and macabre sometimes, but it's there.

I have a good sense of humor and can be fairly quick-witted when it comes to puns and plays on words. However, I am absolutely awful at telling formal jokes with punch lines. It's embarrassing.

What a load of crap.

I get NTs to laugh/giggle frequently and i have used humour successfully in life to get bullies to back off and to make people like me more.

The guy who wrote the stuff probably had some sort of low functioning autist with no humor that interpreted each and every word literally - and that probably made him make up his mind about people with ASDs.

Sometimes the jokes by those with ASDs are also shared by NTs. I once suggested adding to an advert for electronic equipment the phrase "VGSOH required". Which to me suggested that the new owner of the item should have a good sense of humor if he or she will ever get on with the gadget.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Maybe they think that because I don't laugh at EVERY LITTLE THING.
I mean when I'm watching a movie sometimes people look at me not laughing and try to explain it to me and I'm like " I get it completely, Hell I get every little reference they make, I just don't like to express that I find it funny. Laughing is annoying."

i have a very urbane, random sense of humor. i have a finely-tuned sense of the absurd, of satire, and irony. i have a love of observational humor, referential humor. and sometimes? i never know what's gonna make me crack up. people falling down does not make me laugh, people being ridiculed does not make me laugh. if you have to force yourself to laugh at something you don't think is funny, you're not being normal, you're being a fool.

Well, I'd say to him cite your source. I happen to have a great sense of humour, I just don't find the mindless stuff funny.

People with aspergers certainly do have a sense of humor, it's just that their sense of humor might be different from others. There's nothing wrong with that.

Guys, I registered here to ask you one question. You see, I was googling the answer to whether Autists have any sense of humour, and if they do, then what is it like?
I understand you all have your sense of humour, but I actually wanted to ask you for something else.
Are there any famous comedians with Aspergers/Autism? Are there any videos with them? Do you know any films or clips or show where an Autistic person plays some major role?
I am not talking about that Rain man where Dustin Hoffman just pretended to be alternatively gifted. I am talking in the context of a comedian who creates his own jokes.
Literally, I am serious.

I write and perform comic songs, and often get a laugh. I'm not great at predicting which lines will click with people, though. I can write something thinking "oh, they'll like that" and just get blank looks when I perform it. Other times, I'll do a song mainly for my own amusement that riffs on some obscure topic, and end up with people requesting it for months on end. And laughing at the same wierd, obscure jokes every time.

I've really never got the hang of teasing as humour. That may be partly the autism, but partly also that in my secondary school, "teasing" was mainly done as a form of bullying that kids could get away with. So I only "get" it from people I know quite well. Otherwise, I assume hostility and shut down.