Anyone else here who just LOVE irony and wordplay?

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I am asking because aspies are kind of supposed to have a lot of trouble getting irony and other kinds of wordplay. And in my case, it is just the opposite. Like my Facebook wall is crowded with one ironic and highly sarcastic status after another.

I know I am different from a lot of you guys in that respect, but just wonder if anyone else is a bit like me there? I have a theory it may have to do with me always having been a language geek rather than a maths geek? Any takers on this?

Maybe the whole reason you like irony and word play is because its so alien to your mind, making it interesting to you.

But yeah, ive encountered language loving aspies that seem to like it too.

I love word play and irony when I get it. I am not good at generating it, for the most part. Mostly, I generate it without knowing, maybe subconsciously.

within my limits I can grok the occasional bon mot.

I do.

But I have high verbal intelligence, so I'm sure that influences it.

Yes, very much so.

I used to find it hard to work out when people were being sarcastic and when they were being forthright. I gradually learned that one.

I have always enjoyed wordplay and irony. I like clever comedians that use wordplay and language and observation to the mainstream 'laddish' comedians.

I don't like the ones who swear as part of the act just for the sake of it. Thats not to say I don't like comedians that swear, just the ones that swear unnaturally. Russell Howard is one I just don't find funny as is Frankie Boyle. Noel Harding I really don't get. A lot of the newer comedians just try to hard to be funny that they aren't I think many of them run out of decent material.

I do like comedians like Rich Hall though and John Bishop because they storytell as much as anything and their use of the language is very clever. Rich Hall in particular chooses his words wisely to portray a run of the mill lower than average intellect person where you know he is much clever than the image he portrays in his acts.

Stephen Fry, Rhod Gilbert, Miles Jupp are good too.

pete barbutti does it for me. Charlie weaver also.

Sarcasm is practically my second language, and I am QUITE fond of wordplay, entendres and the like. Though, I do have a difficult time telling if someone ELSE is being sarcastic from time to time if I do not know them well, and in those instances, I just ask their meaning. Maybe it comes off as rude or awkward, but I prefer to just be direct and done with it.

I've NEVER been fond of math, it's been my lowest grade in school/tests since as long as I can remember. But my reading/writing grades are usually my highest. So, perhaps that is a part of it?

I wonder what proportion of aspies are math-strong, versus the numbers who are language-strong?

I like it too. The dictionary is my bible.

I love word play.
Below is a single sentence I wrote for/about a politics forum that I used to moderate.

The monstrous exception to all this is that without the calamitous nature of all the erstwhile arguments that are offered in an overly fallacious and gratuitous manner, the most becoming excuse for the strategically inept resolution has shown itself to be, without a shadow of a doubt, the most extensive retrogression of iconoclastic implications that have persistently paid homage to the solicitously reactive contempt, without which this hamlet-like masquerade would never have befallen this mischievous little gathering of intellectually convergent and disparate wraith-like incorpulent entities.

I use irony all the time. I make weird jokes and use irony in them. When I was a kid/teen I had trouble with irony but after the age of 20 I started to learn more about it and use it. I use it too much nowadays probably. I like to say twisted stuff to people hehe. I am bad with words though and I am more of a math geek. Numbers is my strong suite.

I might sometimes miss someone else's irony, especially if I am tired and have a low energy level. But most of the time irony is quite fun and entertaniing. I am diagnoced with Asperger. and also do not fit the general pattern.