Does autisim in general support sense of humor or deacrease?

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I saw a million things online that aspies do not have good sense of humor. I used to know a guy with adhd who was funny and I was called funny. Just to let you know I have asperger's so I wanna know information on that also.

I think it can go both ways, but in my opinion it helps a sense of humor ... unfortunatly sometimes the sense of humor is very individual, and others don't get it so much. Aspergers/Autistics can be great stand up comedians as they see the world from an outsiders perspective as well, which is what is needed to make great humor. Look at most comedies, they're always about that. I think thats just a misunderstanding or prejudice ... just because others don't have the same humor doesnt mean that the sense of humors not good!

I am careful with my humor, for it is almost Monty Pyton in a way.

Most people would not understand, and might be offended. I share with people who

understand my humor.

I have a pretty juvenile sense of humor, and sometimes I have trouble keeping a straight face at things which nobody else my age laughs at.

I find myself very funny, but other's dont...
I also don't find many other people funny...

When someone else tells me a joke I am usually slower to understand it than others, or won't pick up on it the first time. But there are other jokes that I will laugh at right away, I guess it varies on the joke.

When I try to tell jokes they always fail lol

I don’t consider myself “funny”, but in ordinary conversation I’m told I have a good sense of humour. I also find subtle humour useful for diffusing uncomfortable/heated situations, or for communicating something that would seem hostile if it wasn’t for the fact that it made the other person laugh.

I've cracked people up with throwaway remarks that weren't consciously intended to be funny. When I try really hard to be funny though, people often have difficulties understanding my sense of humour.

I've also noticed that some of my favourite comedy movies weren't well received, critically or commercially - movies like "The Flintstones", "North", "Wild Wild West", "Scary Movie 3"...

Josher, wherever or whoever made that remark about we don't have a sense of humour - tell them where to shove that opinion. We have a sense of humour - it's just different like most other aspects of being Aspie!

It probably doesn't affect whether we have a sense of humor or not. What it does affect is some combination of whether we understand other people's jokes, whether we respond to jokes in a way that other people would recognize as us thinking they were funny, whether we make the kind of jokes that other people would find funny, whether we laugh in response to things that we don't find funny (such as things we find scary, disgusting, awful, etc -- for many people laughing is a nervous response to those things, and in no way suggests finding them funny, but non-autistic people tend to suppress that response better if they're prone to it), and whether, when we do laugh at something funny, anyone else can tell what it is we're laughing at.

For instance, I have a friend who was on a large bus full of people going to a convention, and saw a road sign that said "COW" on it.

She said that immediately what flashed through her head was a picture of a cow that had "ROAD SIGN" painted on it.

So she started laughing really hard, and probably everyone else thought she was "laughing at nothing" or something. I know someone else autistic who was actually punished in a mental institution for laughing about the idea of putting a comma between people's first and last name the same way you put it between a city and a state or country. Apparently they thought that not only it wasn't funny, but that it wasn't "appropriate" for her to laugh over something like that. She lost some sort of "privileges" for it. (With the understanding that "privileges" means things that everyone else considers a human right, but in institutions they take them away from you and hand them back as "privileges".)

My sense of humour's on holiday. Wow, that was lame! *cringe*

Really.

Sense of humor is pretty independent of having AS.

The thing is the humor may be different than standard humor, you'll find things that are funny that no one else will understand.

I know personally, I have a very strong sense of humor. And I can make people laugh, either through my odd behavior... strange comments I make that exists somewhere between reality and a joke... or just straight up jokes.

I'm keeping a pad to write down all the funny things that I think of during the day. I have a terrible memory, so it'll help greatly. I was never one to memorize a scripted joke, due to the memory problems... but I'm working on that.