Telephonoscope wrote:
I love the darker forms of humor. Sarcasm, droll, black, dry, understatements, ironic, etc. I don't like the types of humor that involve stupidity, embarrassment, caricature, or vulgarity. Basically, I find a lot of British comedy hilarious (except Monty Python. They are confusing.) and most American humor to be either nonsensical (a lot of humor that isn't dark goes massively over my head) or enough to make me very anxious - especially embarrassment humor.
I guess that's odd, though, because all I see online is that autistics don't like or understand sarcasm. Period.
In fact, my very dry and sarcastic sense of humor was part of the reason I went undiagnosed for so long.
I can't be the only one that doesn't like most "silly" humor, right?
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I like the sames types of humor -- very dry, witty, understated or ironic humor, and I usually don't have much trouble with it. Every once in a while I won't notice that someone or something is sarcastic or satirical, but that's everyone -- I understand way more than I miss.
Although now that I think about it, how would I know that I missed a piece of sarcasm unless someone pointed it out for me? Especially since I tend to watch humorous stuff on my own? Perhaps I've even misinterpreted serious things as humorous. Hm. I suppose there's no real way to tell, but I don't feel that I've missed much.
In any case, I wouldn't really describe myself as a
sarcastic person, because I think that tends to mean someone who is bitterly sarcastic over almost anything. I'm sarcastic and overly-literal in my
mind, but I don't usually voice my thoughts to people I don't know very well.