How are you with being sarcastic / understanding sarcasm?

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On my teen forum I was voted the most sarcastic member of 2014. While there are a lot of abstract things I don't get, I guess I'm good with both understanding sarcasm and being sarcastic. At least in written form.

How about you?

(I was also one of four nominated for member of the year....just had to brag )

That's awesome, Ezra. Nice one.

I'm not very good at recognising sarcasm in both written form and spoken form. One of my friends is very sarcastic and I've taken what he's said when being sarcastic literally lots of times.

I don't understand the concept of rhetorical questions and a lot of metaphors either. I usually take them literally too so a lot of people who know me well don't use sarcasm or metaphors when speaking to me.

I can be very sarcastic myself, but I commonly never pick up on other peoples' sarcasm. I have the tendency to take a lot of things literally.

Nice going. Now we just need to see a little more sarcasm from you on this forum.

I'm generally pretty good at it. I can definitely be sarcastic myself. Heck, I used to have a t-shirt that said "Sarcasm is one of the services I offer." I'm usually quite good at picking up on other peoples' sarcasm, but once in a while I might miss some verbal/behavioural cue & take something literally that was intended to be sarcastic.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I can sometimes be quite sarcastic myself and I'm not that bad at recognising sarcasm in general (though there are times when I'm completely oblivious to it). I find it far more difficult to understand ambiguous language (I guess sarcasm is ambiguous as well but I hope you know what I mean).

I'm not sure if i'm good or bad about it. I think that i am good, since a lot of times i can be sarcastic. When it comes to understanding though i'm not ver skilled at it, especially if i don't know the person.
When i am with someone that i know for some time i can understand it most of the times, perhaps because i consciously know about what kind of things that people would "joke" about and what things should be taken seriously. But if i am with someone that i don't know very well and have to understand it just by facial expressions and/or voice tone things can get quite confusing.

Strangely when I'm being sarcastic it frequently goes over the head of other people and they take me seriously. I can certainly follow sarcasm in a movie or book or TV show. But when someone is being ironic or sarcastic with me in a normal conversation - I probably have about a 50/50 batting average of getting it.

I've been give the title 'Ultimate Sass Master'. My reward was a picture of a basket of kittens.

I can be sarcastic at times. I get sarcasm better than I used to get it.

I tend to answer questions which were meant to be rhetorical, though.

I don't understand sarcasm and I cannot be sarcastic.

Just like I can't tell different facial expressions apart.

I can almost always understand sarcasm. Often I find sarcasm funny, but in certain contexts it upsets me (as when people say, "We're sooo good at this.") But I can be very sarcastic in my head.

I can give sarcasm much better than I can interpret it, because I understand the concept of it, but I have a hard time interpreting when other people are using it.

I can be sarcastic and funny sarcastic, but when I'm receiving sarcasm it's mostly always a foreign language to me and I end up pretending to understand what it meant.