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One thing I do not hear talked about with AS is your sense of humor.

I may not have a good imagination in a lot of things, but telling and hearing jokes is one place where it shines. Often times when I'm telling a joke its ad-lib. So much so that I will not know I'm going to tell one until it comes out of my mouth. I use it with my conversations with NT's to lighten up the conversation if it is getting too awkward.

I just wondering if other Aspie's in general have a sense of humor and how good it is.

Yes I realize I should made a poll out of this topic

I have a very strange sense of humour. I joke around with my friends about my problems. I also have a slapstick humour that's very British. I also like to watch tv shows like The Monkees, Everybody Hates Chris, Mad TV And Saturday Night Live.

I tend to have a twisted sense of humor that people sometimes take too seriously. I have also been told that I have a quick, witty sense of humor as well. Sometimes something funny will pop into my head the moment somebody says or does something, and I can't help but make a joke, even if some people find it inappropriate.

Hey tasbro and CockneyRebel, it sounds like we should get together and exchange some jokes. Maybe even put together an act and tour the Auspie circuit

i get the impression that only a few people are on my humor wavelength. things that strike me as hilarious seem to strike only my own funny bone, with few exceptions. i just can't understand the humor coming from the lions' share of the comics/comedies on tv. so like everything else in life, i have my own humor thing going, that i can share with me, meself and I, but nobody else seems to want any part of it. oh well, more of my humor for me, i guess.

Humor is an area where I shine for sure. I have a somewhat dry wit a lot of the time (sarcastic humor and such). I'm very adept at realizing when a joke is appropriate or not, and even when an inappropriate joke may be pushed into acceptable territory depending on how I deliver it. For example, a "that's what she said" after an accidental innuendo may be too far, but I can still make effectively the same joke by suppressing a laugh and semi-supressing a smile.

I'm also very adept at using humor to cheer up friends, even in major situations (and my friends know this, so they come to me a lot). For example, one of my friends in high school called me crying after her boyfriend of over a year broke up with her. I sympathized with her, listened to her recount the situation with the appropriate responses, and then I worded a response in a way that I knew would remind her of something she found amusing that had no mental association with her boyfriend. She laughed, and I rewarded that with positive attention ("hey, there's that smile!"). I then built on that until she was volunteering jokes of her own.

I have no idea how I've always been so good at humor, or how I've figured out all the social "rules" behind it, but I am certainly glad I have.

Most people who know me much at all say that my sense of humor is a strong point.

It's not the wavelength that's the problem. It's the superpositioning of waveforms in complex non-linear juxtapositions of tangential references that causes me problems.

My sense of humor is rather different. I find a lot of humor in things, but most people do not appreciate what I find funny. I do not appreciate a lot of things that most people find funny. Slapstick, in particular, is almost never funny to me.

i have a random/immature sense of humour. i laugh when people fall over, then feel guilty about it, i can't help it.

Same here.

I have a very jaded sense of humor. Which doesn't fit the mass mainstream population.

I have read that people with AS tend to have trouble with at least certain types of humor due to the common difficulties with "between the lines" aspects of communication in general, which could make things like irony, sarcasm, and satire potentially problematic for aspies.

If this is true, I am very glad that this is one issue I have never experienced. I have always had a very broad and eclectic sense of humor and can laugh at literally anything. I am always the last person to stop laughing at something, always enjoying anything that can be found funny to the last drop. In fact, my very itchy funny bone and ability to find anything funny has been very important in getting be through the hardest times in my life, particularly early on in childhood when my more dysfunctional AS traits were far more problematic. I can be funny and make people laugh most of the time, but being a particularly hilarious and sharp wit in fluid social situations does tend to require a higher level of interpersonal savvy than is common in people with AS.

I will say though, that my sense of humor does range all the way towards the bizarre. I have a fairly recent and very serious growing love of surreal humor and dark comedy.

Yeah I have some really immature types of humor too. In my case, I always laugh at toilet humor.

I also have a slapstick sense of humor, which is almost required if you're significantly physically disabled. Otherwise certain things (like being dumped out of your wheelchair on your face by a friend who overestimated their skill in that area) would just be miserable. (The friend has a very messed-up spine, and immediately had to lie down to keep from ending up on the floor herself. I couldn't move much because my movement disorder was causing me to freeze a lot of the time, but when I could move at all, it was to laugh my $*@ off.)