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Does anybody else find the typical NT humor to not be funny?

As a child I would sit and watch sit-coms and be entertained by watching other people interact, but not find the parts where the "canned laughter" was to be funny. Then later in school people would tell jokes and I wouldn't find them funny. Everyone else would be laughing and would then laugh at me because I didn't get the joke. It "went over my head" they would tell me. It didn't. I got what was said and whatever was implied, but I didn't find it to be funny.

I started laughing when everyone else laughed, but I would always be laughing afterward. That just made them tease me more.

I started watching sit-coms again at about twelve to figure out what normal people find funny. I'm pretty good at it now. I just pretend that the joke was "beneath" me now if I miss the cue. I'll try to tell jokes like they do to "blend in," but most times no one laughs(unless they're of a higher intelligence).

I picked up the habit of laughing when other people did, while my brain was still processing the joke. (as to not look stupid, I suppose...)

Negative side effects included: laughing way too long when I got the joke, and anytime when I was being made fun of. I didn't get those jokes quickly, either... it looks strange when you quickly go from laughing to getting upset. The worst part was personally feeling so stupid for being the last person to get that I was being laughed at...

Fortunately, high school is long over. ^^



**Edited because I sometimes forget certain elements that give my statements context, or meaning... my apologies.

I usually find NT humor insulting to anyone who is moderately intelligent. I can always see the punch lines coming from a mile away, and it seems like hollywood has realized that the lowest common denominator in society watches the most tv and targets their programming after them.

Thank you. Infact I feel the same way about practically every TV show and movie. I call the end of the show or movie almost every time within the first five to ten minutes.

I enjoy going to comedy clubs and there's a comedian I go to see every year, when he's on tour (Ross Noble). But, I've also seen a few who have completely bombed, including one who had been the best thing I'd ever seen, the previous year. That makes me sad, more than unentertained. There are some great acts out there, it's just knowing who they are. I watch a few UK panel shows (Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, etc) and get the feel for some comedians on those. I don't watch sitcoms, except the IT Crowd, which is just daft.

I always find that my husband (43yrs) and I (38yrs) are about the oldest in the crowd at comedy shows, which are mainly made up of people in their early 20s, with intellectual appearance, probably students. Thankfully we both look young and don't look too out of place.

When i think of NT humor... i think of the movie "The Hangover"... It thoroughly annoyed me... not only because it just was not funny in any sense... but i was interrogated and insulted if i explained to anyone why i didnt like it...

This might make me sound incredibly cold, but I find that being humorous is an overrated virtue. People always seem to forgive people's other faults if they're a funny person. I don't think it's fair, really. Someone could be an absolute bumhole but if they make people laugh, they're still popular. I noticed in school that some of the class comedians were the biggest bullies. Some of them were shy kids who just wanted to be popular (who I would've liked, anyway), but some of them were really malicious.

I will sometimes laugh at some comedians but my sense of humour is usually triggered by absurd situations and phrases. It's hard to explain. I don't feel the magnetic pull of 'funny people', to which most people seem susceptible. Making me laugh isn't on my criteria for liking people, which sounds almost inhuman - but that's what I'm like.

Hmm, I do. I have the habit of amusing my friends though, by not laughing at the time, but a few minutes later bursting out in seemingly spontanious laughter and saying "I just got that!".

I love humor. I think the tendency to see the funny side of things and to make jokes is a kind of detachment, perhaps even a spiritual quality. Life always afflicts us with difficulties and ordeals but the humorous approach to life allows us to see the funny side and laugh and to have the humility to laugh at ourselves. Around the age of 9-12, humor was a special interest and I was obsessively trying to think of funny remarks or situations; I miss that! Way too serious now

I've never really thought about 'NT humor' as I'm the only AS person I know IRL and I find our humor generally compatible. I just lack the tact to laugh even if I don't find a joke funny -- too honest for that.

I think if I ever write a personals ad, I'm going to put, 'must have BSOH'.

I don't have a good sense of humor, I'm yet to find out why. I'm hardly capable of telling jokes, partly because I don't remember them well, but if I manage to tell one most people laugh at it. Some jokes really need to be explained (or analyzed) before I can laugh at them.

I understand better situational humor and simple humor that requires no higher intellect, although I like intellectual satire very much. I can laugh at it heartily, or sometimes cry over it (strangely enough). I don't like the kind of irony that I find offensive or ignorant. Sometimes I completely miss sarcasm.

People think sometimes I smile or laugh about things because I detest something or someone, or I'm contemptuous. That's not true, I equally detest myself when I feel that way. Thankfully I'm not in that mood since months ago.

my humor tends to the real unpc stuff, it tends to offend people and then when they cop an attitude with me I argue with them to try to convince them its funny....endlessly. or I get mad when they get offended and not know why.