Grinning like an idiot at inappropriate moments...

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Same thing here. When I'm among other people, I'm usually nervous and stressed, but because I smile, they think I'm happy. Could be worse.

This is a known aspie trait according to Attwood, explained alot about my stupid nervious laugh I can't or the life of me turn off. I do it often and have got into trouble for laughing at authority figures during my being punished, sternly talked too etc. Also becouse of this bullys in school would often get away with it becouse they would just say "hes laughing so he thought it was funny" as a defence. I often get the "this is not the time to laugh" line from others or the "do you get the severity of whats going on" line also.

I smile alot at inappropriate moments, but not due to wicked thoughts. When I get nervous, sad, or scared, I get a huge smile on my face and can't wipe it off. The worst part is that this usually happens when I least want it to.

I often chuckle to myself at odd moments if I'm internally recalling something amusing, and I do grin at odd times, usually involving being in the midst of chaos. The best example would be arriving at work to find the place swamped and the kitchen in complete retreat, where I don't even have time to clock in before throwing myself into the midst of the disarray and knocking out the tickets one by one until we're out of the weeds. I usually am the only one in the kitchen smiling and get a real manic charge off of all the adrenaline flowing around me, especially when I'm the only calm person, which is often. I also get the maniac grin when someone tries to pick a physical fight with me, which is not often, but is absolutely and obviously hilarious to me, which usually takes the remaining wind out of the fight pickers sails. Something about someone who's completely calm, obviously amused and unafraid, and grinning at you like Christmas just came early seems to lower the confidence level of bullying types; perhaps they're not complete idiots.

Same here. Then I realize they were leading up to story about their dog dying, or the like, and I look like an inconsiderate fool.

I sometimes start grinning when some random funny thought pops up in my mind, or I laugh for too long over something. Then sometimes people notice and ask why I'm laughing and I try to suppress it, but I often find it hard to. Trying to get rid of the funny thought from my head is a bit like being told 'whatever you do, don't think about a blue elephant' and they thinking about.. a blue elephant.

Interesting. That reminds me: in grade 3 my teacher saw these two boys tripping me on purpose and standing in my way so I couldn't get into the classroom and laughing (bullies) . She told the whole class during what they did during class time and said that this behavior was completely unacceptable. Then she had me come up to them at their table and told me to tell them to leave me alone. I started laughing as soon as I came up to them and they started saying "look miss Kitchen, she's laughing, she's laughing, she's lying, she made it up" and then they started laughing at me. Luckily she (the teacher) understood and said "no she's just nervous". Good teacher...not that it stopped the bullying at all...but she tried.