Asperger's Syndrome - No Sense of Humor

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I tend to find things funny then no one else does and I laugh at myself quite a lot too, when I broke my ankle I was laughing my ass off at my stupidity since i broke it playing capture the flag in a cut corn field.

False. I have a weird, but good sense of humor.

Yeah think I do but it fails quite often so I have to dumb it down a lot of the time. What I like is really dry sarcasm but people often just miss it completely. I've actually had people ask me why I am really serious all the time Most of the time I am actually joking. Sometimes I'll meet someone who get's me, but that's quite rare.

Seeing that I have become interested in stand-up comedy lately, I have expanded my humor base.

I have a very unique sense of humor. At stuff other people don't understand, I can just laugh and laugh and laugh. People just look at me like I'm crazy. Yet what other people like, I can't get. Once, I couldn't stop laughing when just remembering when my great grandmother, I think it was some offer or something, from the phone company, and she said she was sorry, but that the person they were looking for(her) wasn't there, that she'd left town just the night before and she was only the lady who was there to clean. She used to make me laugh so much. I really miss her.

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I prefer puns, dryness, some sarcasm, cheekiness, random unscripted, some visual, and self deprecation (but not putdowns of self or others).

My NT kids think I do not have a sense of humour. I just do not have a sense of NT humour.

My family used to say I had in-depth humor. I'd make a joke then about five minutes later they'd get it.

I just don't think that fart jokes are funny at all. Someone mentioned America's greatest Home Videos. It appears that NTs are the ones who are sadistic. If I see someone fall, this strange thing happens. I wonder if they got hurt. I saw one episode where a fat lady fell off a horse. It looked bad! Another video was a wading pool that suddenly poped, and the other may have been the antics of a pet. The woman falling off a horse won. I also failed to see why someone would willing put something humiliating out there for the world to see.

I am often told, "That was a joke," yet I am quite humorous. Examples: I saw a sign in a store that said "Giant tool sale." I said, "They look like ordinary size tools to me."

When hanging clothing for toddlers on a rack at the store I told the coworkers that the toddlers can't reach that high.

I carry a bottle of water around with me and I told a co-worker thast it really wasn't water, but alcohol. She replied, "And I thought I knew you."

I reconnected with a friend from High school on FB only to find out that he had radical political ideas. He sent a note saying he deleted a comment I made about his post. I replied that that was censorship, that it is O.K. for you to censor people but wrong when the government does it. And by his own definition censorship is a form of violence so therefore he was committing violence against me. He unfreinded me. I wrote back saying I was just joking and went over the top but he just said I was attacking him no matter what I said. If people can't take a little sarcasm they have lost it.

People say i have a sense of humor, but most people cannot just call my humor what it is. they have to call my sense of humor "odd" or "off" or "dry," just because its different from theirs. like they have to put some demeaning word in front of it. whatever.
some call me sarcastic, because my idea of a joke is to say things that are kind of an exaggeration on the truth, with a straight face.
sometimes i'm just simply stating a fact and NT's practically fall down on the floor laughing, and in my mind i'm like "WTF?"
sometimes when NT's tell jokes, i am the only person in the room who doesn't get it, or doesn't laugh.

i tend to like certain movies because they are hilarious to me but not really to anyone else (these tend to be the kind of movies that go on sale at blockbuster for $3.99 or something LoL)

i don't know if its cuz of aspergers or what, but my sense of humor has always been different from most people.

People say I have a good sense of humor.

The notion of a 'sixth sense' is humorous. So people who claim they can communicate with dead people certainly have a sense of humour.

False. I definitely have a sense of humor. I have great appreciation for humor, and I can be quite funny when I'm in the right mood. I use a great deal of self deprecating humor -- as a defense mechanism to an extent. I figure that people are less likely to ridicule me for my impairments if I beat them to the punch. I also enjoy finding the humor in various aspects of every day life, and commenting on it. I do enjoy some low level/ toilet humor to an extent. This comes in handy when working with preschoolers, especially since you'll always get a few who tend to expel various bodily fluids at inopportune times, in inopportune places, and sometimes you just need to see the funny side. In one classroom I was in, a child pissed all over the rug in the classroom, and we needed to keep the children off that rug until someone could come in to clean it. I referred to the rug as a "biohazard," to the other staff in the room and the assistant in that classroom thought that was hilarious. There were numerous other incidents in that particular classroom that week, including a child vomiting all over himself, and I remarked that, "It must be Bodily Fluids week in this class." My job is generally to fill in for teachers so they can have prep time and breaks, as well as filling in for teachers who are out. There was a teacher vacancy in that class through the month of September, so I was working in that classroom all of that month. The assistant there has said more than once that she miss having me around all day, because I make her laugh.
Other people have also remarked on how "funny" I am. When I make people laugh, it's intentional - most of the time anyway. My humor ranges from the playful, silly and goofy, to the dry, sarcastic and satirical, depending on my mood, and the situation. I'm somewhat less inclined to see the humor in things when I'm feeling highly stressed/ overloaded, My humor doesn't also show up so much here, because I'm usually talking about matters that are pretty serious to me. However, I'd say that I have a pretty well developed sense of humor overall. My Dad most likely also has AS, and he also has a good sense of humor, even if he does sometimes repeat the same tired old jokes over and over and over again. I've told him that some of his jokes are so old and tired, they should be in a joke mortuary. My Dad found the idea of a "joke mortuary" pretty funny.
Once again, I'm in grave danger of killing this thread. It's past time for me to make a graceful exit -- or not so graceful, as the case may be.

I find the statement: ‘No sense of humour’ very vague.

What kind of humour is meant here?

There are many different kinds of humour.


There is the stand up, ‘in your face’ comedy that’s dry, acerbic satire. This is done for display purposes. This kind of humour aggressively challenges social norms and taboos, sometimes using bawdy jokes and profane language to provoke a reaction.

Then there’s ‘being good humoured’ which means getting on with people and sharing ‘in-jokes’. This is a more interactive and social kind of humour. The kind of humour that guests would share during chit-chat at a party to strengthen their rapports with each other. There is gentle teasing that isn’t meant to mean any real harm.

These two humours can grade into each other.


I think that a certain degree of detachment from the social situation is required to do dry satire. It’s an observational kind of humour. Someone observes society from a distance and comments on it. It’s also deeply perceptive.

An AS person would have the detachment required to do satire, if they have just enough social awareness to make it work. I believe that an AS person could use self-deprecating humour to cover their faux pas as a kind of social defence mechanism. People like others that can make them laugh, so what was a blunder can be turned into a strong point. Inadvertent bluntness can also be interpreted as dry humour in some situations.

I’ve often done satire without realising that I’m doing it. People have said how funny and observant I’ve been when I didn’t intend to be funny at all. I was just saying what I felt about a situation. Perhaps what I say is unexpected and that’s why people laugh. People have laughed with me not at me, because they’ve said so afterwards.

Once you realise that other people find you funny, I think that you can develop that, if you have enough very basic social awareness to do so.