This is why I hate edgy humour

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I was in an online chat and we were talking about where everyone came from. I told them my home town. Then we were talking about some criminal and what team he supported. He lived in my home town. I pretended the CSC there was named after him as a joke… In a place where it was 'anything goes' type humour.

We're in a more serious chat. My friend's on there I think cos he keeps calling me by the username I use on there. This Rangers fan brings up screen shots and says that's what I called my local.

It's not my local I'm joking about. It's my home town's one. My friend goes to the same local CSC as me. Now it looks like I was being serious and I was slagging off my friends in a big, serious, unprovoked kind of way which doesn't really make sense. I feel like they're going to hate me over this.

I don't get this kind of humour. They were making holocaust and Irish famine and Ibrox disaster jokes and nobody brings that up... They were being incredibly insensitive about all sorts of stuff and all that gets brought up is what I said. Yeah I shouldn't have indulged in it myself but I was trying to fit in by saying the edgiest stuff and it was funny in the moment.

And now ppl will hate me irl…

Thing is tbh if he said I called my home town's CSC that I wouldn't be worried cos it would either sound provoked or like a joke or (which it is) both.

You never know whens someone is going to be offended these days (hint it's too often). If these friends mention it to you, just tell them it was a joke taken out of context. They will get over it if they haven't already.

I've never really understood the Glasgow/Lanarkshire sense of humour myself. I lived in that area for about a few years at one point in my life. Seems a million years ago now. But I'm not from there originally and never did get the humour.

It's not really a very aspie friendly kind of humour. The banter is to make fun of people. But everyone gets it and I don't. Being English was especially hard. I never knew if people were being racist or just bantering.

I imagine if I had tried to engage in the humour I would have got it wrong and ended up offending rather than being "funny" in line with that type of humour.

I don't really have any advice other than stick to humour that isn't insulting in any way and you won't fall into misunderstandings. I know that might make you feel like a bit of an outsider, but I always was the outsider. I never managed to not be the weird English girl. I think that's why my autism wasnt' picked up. I was weird because I was English.

Yeah, I went to the pub yesterday and nobody cared. We have similar humour - if you can't take the p... out of your own then you shouldn't be doing it about anyone. Edgy but not just making fun of everyone else. It's the kind of stuff that gets said round there actually.

I think those people were singling me out because they were making similar jokes and only mine got brought up. I'm avoiding them a great deal now. It's not funny to me.

Now if my hometown's ok w me saying it idk yet. But they should be. And if they're not then, they're the ones who never invited me there until I was in my 20s and had left town, simply because I wasn't Catholic. They say they're not sectarian but they only seem to meet up at the churches and schools and they don't advertise... So yeah I'm a bit bitter against them anyway & if they don't forgive me, it's not like they were ever part of my life anyway.