Humour… something that all people should experience from time to time that enables them to become or remain happy and content. It is one of the best emotional responses that is out there. Laughter… the ultimate bodily response to humour is actually quite healthy for the body to often experience as it relieves tension of the muscles after laughing, removes stress and can even boost your immune response to diseases! So, laughing is good obviously and everyone should experience it on a regular basis.
So, I thought that I would talk about what triggers humour and laughter for me. Many people have varying things that can make them laugh from comedy movies and jokes of varying types from people falling over or hurting themselves in a humorous fashion perhaps due to how silly it was, animals can make people laugh sometimes for many different reasons. There are a whole host of things that can make people laugh or experience humour from and no one person is exactly the same, although often they are only a similar range.
People with ASD on the other hand though very often experience humour in a very different way to the average person and many of them won’t find the usual jokes, phrases or typical comedy funny, humorous or even at all amusing. For myself I certainly hardly ever laugh at jokes or comedy movies or pretty much anything else that could be put into the category of usual humour. I can understand how it’s funny and I can still find it amusing but that does not mean I’ll laugh at it. Unfortunately, many people can misinterpret this as the individual not enjoying or disliking the content when most the time that isn’t the case.
In many situations I’ve found myself just putting on a fake laugh when I recognise that humour has been used just so I don’t seem rude or seem off or attract unwanted attention due to not laughing at the thing everyone else is laughing at. In all reality though laughing for me, genuinely laughing, is a big rarity and when it does happen it is normally spontaneous and out of the blue, there doesn’t seem to be a specific category that can regularly make me laugh, except maybe myself and my own made humour but I don’t think that exactly counts and is a bit biased, but I can easily make myself laugh from my own constructed humour, which again is just random stuff, although I can say it doesn’t feel the same as fully laughing at something else.
Some things can be loosely categorized such as certain memes I view on youtube or other areas of the internet that make me laugh, most often just the silliest of things that most people probably would not find super funny. There is also a number of youtubers that I can sometimes find funny and the ones that most often make me laugh are MaxMoeFoe and Dashiegames, both of which often seem to be super high energy and are perhaps over-the-top for many people. There are also some others to but I am not going to list everyone.
Some other random things can make me laugh sometimes such as Donald Trump’s tweets for example, not all of them but from time to time there is something that just sets me off, I think it is mostly the fact of how alien it still feels to have a President of any-kind, let alone of the US, tweeting the things he tweets such as insulting and calling people names. I think the latest one that got me was when he called Michael Bloomberg “Mini Mike”. It’s just the stupidity of it that gets me.
Dark humour can be another one that gets me more often than not. Some people can find it real offensive understandably but there is just something about the boldness of it that just manages to tingle the funny bone.
But overall, it really is just super random and spontaneous and at the end of the day there is nothing that is guaranteed to make me laugh every time. My conclusion is “when it happens, it happens.”
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