Have you ever been walking or sitting alone somewhere? and..

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And suddenly burst out laughing cause you are playing a funny movie or comedy hour or something in your head and just got to a funny part?

It is really fun.


It was just before a logic class and i started laughing my ass off at apparently nothing. Because i had gotten wasted the night before on dry gin strait, and in that class i remembered in an arlo guthrie song (alice's resturant) at one point he said, "Got good and drunk the night before so i look and felt my best when i went in that morning."

I did that again a while before, I started laughing in the middle of nothing because i remembered an opening to the Critic where jay gets a call, "J, this is your inner child and i just robbed a liqour store." *approaching sirens*

I love that, cause you look insane.

Yes, I've done that.

But I'm more subdued in public, so my laughing is inward, or just a quiet chuckle.

GA

Oh god yes.

I do it at LEAST once a day.

People think i'm f*cking weird but sometimes I just can't hold it in.. or stop. I'm usually imagining something stupid like the teacher wearing bunny ears.

I chuckle.

I've done that...

Ever been so deep in thought you forget you're an individual human being? You forget you exist as an individual and all that exists are your thoughts and perceptions...

Ersatz Nirvana... it's weirder and more fulfilling than any drug...

Cogito ergo sum! (Just thought I needed to add that.)

I've done this many times. Once my mom asked me to make her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I made it, and when I was about to hand it to her, I started laughing because I thought of something funny. She thought that I was laughing because I let the dogs lick the sandwich.

My sense of humor can be unpredictable at times.

How come then, when you read a lot of these diagnostic criteria they mention having little to no sense of humor? That threw me off for a long time. Maybe it's because what passes for humor is often not at all funny - at least to me. So, they say the Aspie exhibits little or no sense of humor, when really, it's the other way around.
And yes, I think of something funny sometimes and can barely contain my laughter - in public places. Not often, but once in a while.

As I said in my previous post, I only smile or chuckle quietly.

The reason I'm posting again is this: This topic caused exactly what it's about!!

I was riding the bus home, and I was sitting on top of the wheel... thingy (there were few seats), this is not a seat, nor is anyone really supposed to sit there. I couldn't help but smile at my social defiance. Then I remembered this topic, and smiled again... Then realised I was smiling in public because I was thinking about a topic about smiling/laughing in public!



GA

Yes it happens to me.

Have you ever been walking, or sitting alone somewhere)

I've done it quite a bit. Most typical scenario is sitting on a train then I think of something and I can't help but chuckle. Another place is meetings, someone might actually say something funny, but then I think of it again later on. I've often done it around other people, I remember that my cousin once demanded that I share the joke.

My immediate family always just thought of it has my aspie ways. Though interesting, in literature I've only seen references to 'inappropriate' laughing as an emotional response (i.e. when someone frowns). Not this. I wonder if NTs do it at all.

Perhaps it's also a result of letting your mind drift and thinking of things. Though the other interesting thing is the ability to re-invoke the same emotion (that makes you laugh) for a 'used' joke.

I do this a lot, although I have it under control now.....Although now, my sister, who is a very random person with a goofy sense of humor similar to mine, will all of a sudden start talking about something random. I think that is how I appear to people, sometimes, although if they were in my mind they would see the connections. So I get along very well with her.

I do this except I don't need to think of anything funny to get me going ~ I just get fits of the giggles for no apparent reason.