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Asperger humour

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I have known several people with Aspergers who have made me laugh, more so than 'neurotypical' people have ever done. My dad, who has Asperger traits (but no diagnosis), has a childish and coarse sense of humour, but I always find him funny. What do you think? Are people with Aspergers more likely to find other people with Aspergers funny? Is there an Autistic comedy genre that needs to be researched? Because it is certainly not true that we lack a sense of humour. Maybe we just struggle to understand 'neurotypical' humour - I am trying not to generalise, we are all different!

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  • You are dead right about humour.  Very little radio comedy amuses me, about the only one I enjoy is "The Now Show".  Anyway there is far too much suspense in most comedy for me to cope with!  Having said that I am always smiling and making people laugh, often at my expense.  I'm in an Activity Club and everyone knows I hate happy bouncy music.  They always laugh when I say miserable music makes me happy.  I'm only happy when I'm melancholy anyway.  Miserable music gets your emotions going so much more.  I agree perhaps I do have a warped sense of humour, so despite Asperger's you can still be very happy, worth thinking about?

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  • You are dead right about humour.  Very little radio comedy amuses me, about the only one I enjoy is "The Now Show".  Anyway there is far too much suspense in most comedy for me to cope with!  Having said that I am always smiling and making people laugh, often at my expense.  I'm in an Activity Club and everyone knows I hate happy bouncy music.  They always laugh when I say miserable music makes me happy.  I'm only happy when I'm melancholy anyway.  Miserable music gets your emotions going so much more.  I agree perhaps I do have a warped sense of humour, so despite Asperger's you can still be very happy, worth thinking about?

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