Its virtually unknown for aspies to have a sense of humour

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that's a ridiculous statement! i have been notorious in my family for my sense of humor, aspies are some of the funniest people i've met! maybe our humor is too complex for the simple neurotypical mind to understand

Sometimes I think I have delayed reactions or slow processing times which make people think I don't find things funny. So someone will say something they think I should find funny and I won't respond, until 5 minutes later when I realize hey, that was funny! But I'd look really silly saying hey I just processed that thing you said and that was good! So I let it go. I find a lot of things really funny in retrospect.

Yep....I have "delayed reactions," too.

One of numerous reasons why I hold "experts" in very low regard.

I used to howl with my dog in the basement. Highly cathartic. At work, if we had 'howling breaks' instead of 'coffee breaks', I might be sane today. Not to mention my batshit crazy coworkers. But the bosses would institutionalize it: "Ms. Pribble, it has come to my attention that you have been howling off-schedule; we shall have to deduct that time from your Personal Days."

You're the Good Humor Lady

Do you have Good Humor ice cream in Canada? I grew up on it in New York.

It was sold by "Good Humor People" from their trucks.

My sense of humour is among my greatest assets and pleasures. Also, I get laughs, not just giggle to myself. It is almost the only way I can feel safe and accepted with a group of strangers. Not every joke works, but those failures provide cover for when I do something "funny" unintentionally.

humor is a lifesaver for me, but my humor is not other people's humor.

Thank you

No, we don't have Good Humor ice cream here, just ice cream sold by teenagers pushing icy wheelbarrows. In two languages - selling, not pushing. We knew about Good Humor, though, because we crossed the Border a lot.

At hockey games, do we "Git yer red hots!"? Certainly not! We get our "Ice Crème Glacée". There is great applause for the young salesman who can catch coins and fling ice cream bars from the floor straight up onto the fan's lap. And then the change, too.

IMHO Canadian French is prettier-sounding to my ears, than Parisian.

I'm sort of in the same situation, except that it takes me six months to be relaxed enough even to approach a giggle with an acquaintance.

In Paris, they speak with the lips cemented into a little circle , the sound coming out like flute.
In Montreal, we speak with lips half-smiling and sound coming out like trumpet or sax (depending on gender).

how do you make your computer keyboard "write" in French with those accent marks?

Probably need a special French language keyboard. Like you probably need a keyboard for Spanish so you can do those upside down question marks, and do the "tilda" symbol (accent mark).

sense?

i have a whole dollar of humor, so, what now?

An aspie walked into a bar and said ouch. haha.