Aspies supposedly have no good humour

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To be honest i really think this is untrue, well certainly in my case. i watch all the funny movies such as step brothers , borat and anchorman ron burgundy. and i laugh all day lol. but then someone in the street might tell me some lame joke. why should i laugh? i usually pretend to of course. but i really think the label they have on aspergers people is not correct. however i will go and watch stand up comedy and i rarely laugh. everyone has there own sense of humour so if someones reading this and they think that ''i cant understand humour because i have aspergers.'' be honest with yourself and try to think if this is true or not.

I have no humour. I also live in USA.

LOL U GET IT?!

I usually find the same things funny that NTs find funny, but I also tend to find some things funny that NTs don't, so I guess I have an even better sense of humor (or humour!) than they do.

Besides, as a writer, I've written a lot of comedy and most people of all persuasions find it funny... So, ASD=No sense of humor... NOT true.

I take everything seriously until I have been around a person long enough to understand their sense of humor. Very few times have I met someone who I find hilarious right away...usually someone with a lot of wit and dry humor. I am not big into "slapstick" humor or anything that is crude, sarcastic, and put-down.

Perhaps we're just more cynical, and what others think of as funny we think of as crap.

Some people are weirded out by my sense of humor.

This is what I shared yesterday and what I find really funny.
Nobody else, seems, tho, really.

The lack of sense of humor thing is a very big lie. There are aspies that have sense of humor and others that don't, just like NTs.
About me, it's true that I don't understand hirony and jokes, but if someone explaines me the joke, I may laugh, too. Sometimes things that make my classmates laugh make me laugh too, sometimes not. Though people may not always understand my sense of humor, I do have one.

You guys, I have given this 'autistics lack a sense of humour' myth a bit of thought lately. I was always square against it, because I was raised by a mother who made me appreciate the importance of going through life with a sense of humour, made me understand sarcasm, and always told me to not take myself too seriously.

However, I have noticed that, when I'm on the receiving end of jokes, sometimes practical jokes, sometimes verbal, I won't be too responsive, and when I do respond it's either with annoyance or misunderstanding. Also, some jokes that people tell me, I'll have the same response. I think this may well be related to my autism, judging from anecdotes I have read in the past here on Wrongplanet. Sometimes, a joke will require one to not take it too literally, and a problem autistic folks have sometimes, is taking things literally. There was this one time when a particularly frivolous co-worker of mine went out for a smoke (+/- 10 minutes or so), and said to me and my ther coworker "Want to write down my phone number, so you can call me when you need me?" The JOKE here was that it was a very slow day with very few customers, so he facetiously suggested that we might get busy in our workload- which we wouldn't. This happens A LOT to me.

So the taking stuff literally on top of the being annoyed at or unresponsive to certain jokes, may lead the average person to think that autistic people lack a sense of humour.

I love stoner comedy movies and all the rest. mr bean is hilarious because maybe hits close to home haha. i think we have the same sense of humor but maybe it just doesn't show to everyone else. With a group of people its hard to keep up with the 'incoming' fast enough for a comeback most of the time.