Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm in the process of discovering if I have asd. I feel I show alot of the signs apart from sarcasm. I use it all the time but the more I think about it the more I dont know if I'm using it and understanding it or I've just been going through the motions all my life. How can you tell if your socialising in a way out of habit or genuine understanding I'm overloaded with information and dont know.
I was explaining to someone before the new year how I could never understand the stereotype of autistic people and not understanding sarcasm, or liking sarcasm. For me, the very fact I do see the world more literally than others is what makes me sarcastic! I can’t think of an example right now, but my version of sarcasm is often very literal. In that its often taking the mick out of sayings and phrases that humans use so much that actually when you really listen to them and think about it are hilariously ludicrous, and make no sense! Though I admit, sarcasm became a second language to me as a self defence mechanisms as it hides a lot of misunderstandings of ‘normal’ things and people laugh with me instead of at me like I have been my entire my life. The only problem is it gets me into bother as sometimes I haven’t read the room well and been sarcastic when everyone has been too serious to laugh at sarcasm or it just wasn’t right for the topic at hand. But usually my sarcasm is appreciated and people laugh.