Davius
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 71
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
10 Oct 2005, 9:23 pm
I do the whole 'laughing-over-a-funny-thought-or-a-previous-event/joke' thing.
Can't say I've ever laughed inappropriately towards something serious or non-funny..although sometimes something funny and/or ironic is said during a conversation...and I always seem to be the only one who catches it.
One problem I have though is after something funny has been said or has happened, after it seems after everyone else is done laughing, I still find myself giggling, or chuckling and smiling about it, sometimes long after... I must appear to be ret*d or something. 
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13 Oct 2005, 7:14 pm
Same thing happened to my son yesterday: a classmate drew something funny and he couldn't stop laughing which drove those around him crazy. This makes him a real easy target for sabotage. 
I stop the urge to laugh at inappropriate times by refocusing my thoughts on something else, especially something totally irrelevant or even worrying. Will this work for you?
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07 Nov 2005, 12:35 am
I overheard my Mum telling my OH about something bad on the phone (I know that my Mum's step-mum is very ill) and assumed that I was about to be told that she had died.
Just as my OH went to pass the phone to me, I started to have a fit of giggles!!
I somehow managed to bring it back under control (although I'm fighting bursting into laughter just by thinking about it) and remain serious on the phone.
It turned out that the step-Grandmother (for want of a better term) has now only months to live. I'm glad Mum didn't actually tell me she had died, I think I would have laughed until it hurt...
How awful is this? I should be feeling sad but I'm struggling to hold back the tears...of laughter.
This is not the first time this has happenend to me either, I've been to funerals before and fought back stiffled laughter too.
I do feel a little guilty, but what can I do? It's an automatic reaction!
No one has common sense anymore.
You are laughing to release the stress of thinking someone might have died. That is what laughter is for. Stress release. There is nothing wrong with you. You get nervous/sad/scared thinking someone is dead. So your body naturally laughs. Laughter is heavy breathing right? Your body is getting extra oxygen by laughing so it can kill the stress you are feeling. The bodily shaking of the laughter is like a little baby massage that works the kinks and tension out of your body.
People think too much. So many things are a natural part of being human. You are not weird or anything. Because we live in a technological society, I think lots of people have forgotten what it means to be a human animal.
07 Nov 2005, 12:38 am
In a cinema I often laugh at rude and immature things. I laugh at prejudiced things that happen in films. When anything sexual happens I usually burst out laughing too which makes people stare at me as though I'm an immature weirdo. I also laugh at people who find it hard to speak because I find the sound of someone stumbling instinctively hilarious. I don't know what's up with me.
See my previous post. The various stimulii cause an energy surge in you. You laugh to allow the energy to escape out your mouth. Sex makes people nervous. You laugh to blow the nervous energy away from you.
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08 Nov 2005, 8:29 pm
there has been a few incidents where someone has been telling me something serious and i have laughed becuase i thought what they were saying was meant to be funny. 
when i see or hear something that reminds me of something funny that happened i can't resist having a little chuckle to myself.
also, i am told that i laugh too loud at things that aren't funny enough to warrant such an extreme reaction.
sometimes i will laugh if i am under stress. the first time i remember myself doing this was when i was being told off at playschool. there were many other times during school that i had to fight the urge to laugh when i was being told off by a teacher. i thought i had gotten over this weird behaviour until recently, when it reared it's head again. i was in my first relationship and my boyfriend was annoyed because he thought i wasn't paying him enough attention. at the time, i was sitting in bed and i could tell just from the look on his face that he was upset. i began to feel the urge to laugh so i pulled the bed covers up to my eyes so he couldn't see my smile but he heard me giggle and he said "stop laughing at me!" and then he started to cry. when i saw his tears i couldn't hold the laughter in any longer- i just started laughing so hard i was almost crying myself! we had lots of other arguments that resulted in me fighting the urge to laugh and eventually we broke up (but not because of my inappropriate laughter).
my dad used to laugh at me when i was a kid, but now i am higher-functioning than he is, i laugh at him. he doesn't complain because he doesn't understand why i am laughing.
