Poll: Do you laugh inappropriately?

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It seems plenty of Autistic people do this, i'm curious just how many.

Hmmm I do for various reasons.

Half the time because I really feel like doing it. Half the time because I get too much positive feedbacks loops in my head as much as most autistics do with negative feedbacks loops.

Only a fraction goes with whatever counter reactions to triggers.
But sure, I laugh very loudly when I'm disappointed, impatient or utterly disgusted.
Or startled, because that doesn't happen often.

The rest of my reactions towards negativity and triggers don't -- it goes with violence, yelling or cruelty because I fight more than I flight.

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Sometimes I laugh when I'm nervous, usually I only laugh if I find something funny, but I find I laugh way harder than everyone else at the smallest things or I'm the only one laughing for some reason. Sometimes I'll laugh out loud because I thought of something funny and look like a maniac.

When I am nurvous or if I have broken a bone etc...
Sometimes I laugh in relief.
The problem is sometimes I can laugh when others assume I am laughing inappropiately. It can get me into trouble. It has not happened that often buy it has happened and I have had people give me a big telling off.
Sometimes when I hear some unfortunate event I may give a little laugh and I can't help it. It is not the same type of laugh that I use in humour, but some serious people don't know that.

I do not laugh when feeling anything besides amused, to the best of my memory (which granted isn’t very good these days). Typically when I laugh “inappropriately,” it’s because something I find amusing randomly popped into my head and has nothing whatsoever to do with anything else. So I do sometimes laugh “inappropriately,” just not in reaction to any sensation or emotion that most people don’t associate with laughter.

Now, crying, on the other hand... pretty much any strong emotion makes me cry. And even sometimes very insignificant things make me cry - it could be something as simple as a dead leaf on a plant. And then sometimes it pretty much requires a strong emotion of some kind. It’s really obnoxious when I’m crying because I’m angry or frustrated, or want everyone to just leave me alone but can’t hide the fact that I’m crying, which draws unwanted attention to me, or something really didn’t upset me that much but I’m crying over it anyway.

Guess I'm rather into making inappropriately fun about the things others are talking about if my abstract thinking causes me to spot some funny things. For this I'm not the only one who laughts then. What is life without humor?

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Sometimes, it might seem inappropriate, but others might be just missing the joke. Laughing at liars is good for society, especially if they are pretty good at it.