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Humour and Interpretation

Sporadic Sparkly

I am aware that communication issues tend to be a common problem for autists. Having been a member of this online community since 2022, I have witnessed plenty of misunderstandings and spats.

Earlier, I read a post on the forums that had caused me some amusement. My interpretation was that it wasn't intended to be a serious post. I felt compelled to respond, but part-way through typing my response, I started to have doubts.

Whilst typing my response, I realised that in addition to the post being in the Health & Wellbeing section, the member had used several tags that suggested their post was actually intended to be taken seriously.

I was faced with the dilemma of whether to post my response, or to completely abort. I chose to continue, but now I'm thinking that maybe it would have been better to abort.

For me, I consider humour and laughter to be essential to health and wellbeing. However, I'm also aware that there's a time and a place.

I'm curious to know if other members have found themselves in similar situations?

On one hand, I feel like this is the one place where I should be able to ditch the mask and be myself. On the other hand, I'm well aware of the need to be careful, as the last thing I want is to say something in jest that causes offence and/or distress to another member.

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  • Throughout my life as a person with aspergers syndrome and a well developed sense of humor i have come into contact with many people who have little to know ability to detect or understand a senses of humor and as a result i was given a openended referal to secondary psychological services where i met and worked with a few amazingly and refreshingly average people who wend aout their days with little resentment or hostility towards other people and attempted to identify issues and offer methods and techniques to overcome and resolve the issues identified, some times the issus do not always come from the person recieving the therapy but are created by external influencing factors, anyway i was offered a couple of courses of CBT and one technique and task i was given was to look in the mirror and identify all of the things that were good amout myself unfortunatly those methods were unsucsessful and something clearly went wrong during the theraputic interventions, in spite of my fears and worries i did as my therapist sugested but with each effort i made in the mirror i began to change and looking back it was at that point that traits of dissasociative identity dissorder were observed and that i along with many others had started to become Bozbecozovit. 

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  • Throughout my life as a person with aspergers syndrome and a well developed sense of humor i have come into contact with many people who have little to know ability to detect or understand a senses of humor and as a result i was given a openended referal to secondary psychological services where i met and worked with a few amazingly and refreshingly average people who wend aout their days with little resentment or hostility towards other people and attempted to identify issues and offer methods and techniques to overcome and resolve the issues identified, some times the issus do not always come from the person recieving the therapy but are created by external influencing factors, anyway i was offered a couple of courses of CBT and one technique and task i was given was to look in the mirror and identify all of the things that were good amout myself unfortunatly those methods were unsucsessful and something clearly went wrong during the theraputic interventions, in spite of my fears and worries i did as my therapist sugested but with each effort i made in the mirror i began to change and looking back it was at that point that traits of dissasociative identity dissorder were observed and that i along with many others had started to become Bozbecozovit. 

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