Cam Etherington I don't have autism....But I don't know if they are joking too....It's sad and hard....But when I was like 10 or 9 or even 8 I understand every jokes...
sometimes I have a hard time getting jokes especially if I am not too familiar with the person joking but more often than not i'll make a joke and people don't realize im joking.
Rex Apis Not always no. i guess its not always clear to others that I am making a joke and a fair portion of the time my jokes are taken seriously or literal. i guess from what im told is my sense of humor is dry. so i suppose it makes it easy for misunderstandings to occur.
Lexort 420, that happens to me a lot too. I think I've got a well-developed sense of humour, but I hate it when people make me out to be gullible for their own amusement. I think they're being cruel.
aragornthebrave Unfortunately a lot of people do behave cruelly, and it's often just them projecting their insecurities and inadequacies on others and animals, especially people they deem to be weaker than themselves, and so they are just bullies at the end of the day & when challenged 99% of the time will just flake
My son is extremely sarcastic , very funny tho . Non aspis can also be inappropriate with jokes and not realise when to stop ,so keep jokeing it's an awesome to be around someone who is happy
My jokes are mostly either puns, or I'm making exaggerated comments of things that are currently talked about. Which can be extremly awkward when I _thought_ others were joking, but actually weren't (often happens when the topic is something nsfw..). The only comedy show I watch and love is Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It's very funny, but I watch it with a completely straight face, which got me some "oh, not your type of humour?" comments.
This is so true! Just because a lot of people on the spectrum don't understand sarcasm or figurative speech doesn't mean that we don't get jokes. I know plenty of people who are on the spectrum (including myself) and they are some of the funniest people on the planet. WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR AND EMOTIONS, PEOPLE! WE ARE NOT ROBOTS!
My favorite type of jokes are black humor, science humor, illogical humor, and puns. I ABSOLUTLEY love puns, and I hate most neurotypicals don't like them.
Yes, I am the same way. I will use a pun in every way I can think of until it is exhausted, and I find them funny long after others have begun plotting my death. I also frequently get reprimanded for finding something that NT's take very seriously funny. Any tiny detail that is ironic or just doesn't fit the rest of the scenario usually sets me off on a thought path of finding everything humorous about how or why it exists, and even if I tried to explain what I found funny no one around me would understand it.
Barrack Obama opened a 7 11 gas station. Trump wanted to one up him so he opened an 8 11 right beside Obamas. Bush wanted to do the same and one up Trump. What store did Bush open? :D
I want to thank you so much for these videos on ASD. It makes understanding my son so much easier. And it's nice to know something's that are common with Aspergers. Like my sons literal thinking and when he speaks it's always in a matter of fact way.
I also have autism to bc when every time im in school ive always hated this feeling when people like to make jokes about autism and the crazy thing is when ever someone is asking me saying what is wrong with u i try to tell them i just have autism and when i tell them that they think i was fucking with them bc i was being serious on them they just dont believe and sad story: it was best for me to hamg out by myself and not let people find out😢
my 2 y/o has autism and I pray that he grows up talking a lot like you and very independent. he just says 4 words and not correctly. you are admirable!
"take the world as an honest place" this omg. I think it could be connected to how we are often naive (or at least perceived that way) . I've talked to some people who have the same experience as me - that they are used to assuming other people are speaking the truth, but to an extend where they rather trust others than themselves (since we're taught that we're processing the world "wrong") anyway more about the topic of your video - a majority of autistic people really seem to enjoy puns and all kinds of plays on words. Apparently it has something to do with the way we think, I'm not 100% sure, but that's the kinda jokes many of us can get behind at least^^ I do love puns a lot myself
I have Aspergers and I think that I understand jokes, irony, and sarcasm very well. I was diagnosed at age 19 and when I was younger everyone around me were sarcastic and all so I kind of picked it up. The bad thing about this is everyone says I am really funny, however myself I think I am not funny at all. To put it in short I try to talk normally and everyone is laughing around me and I don't understand why that happens, because I think I didn't say something that funny.
My 9 year old aspie daughter has a hilarious dry sense of humor and is super quick whitted. Her humor definitely goes over the head of her peers her age lol
I haven't had a meltdown since I stopped talking on a regular basis to my family member who I hate,and who doesn't understand/accept my illness. For example he kept saying "we'll going to have a big serious talk with teachers etc.about my school" when he knew talking about my studies used to trigger. meltdown. His repeating made it worse. I was like "please lets not talk about it,i can't handle it" and he said "yes, oh yes we will talk sbout it."
All my life, I have understood jokes and humor better than most people. Even better than most NTs. I have been telling jokes all my life, since Kindergarten! I have written a few of my own jokes and even performed on stage. I took a comedy class at Michigan State University. The exam was to actually perform live on stage at a comedy club in front of about 300 people! I was scared to death, but, I did it! Once I overcame most of my fear, it only took a few minutes, it was fun and extremely exciting! I've never had a problem understanding jokes, but, most Aspies don't understand them very well. I posted a joke on Facebook. I put it on my wall, several joke groups and some Autism and Asperger's pages. Most people understood the joke and really liked it. But, most people on the Autism/Asperger's sites didn't get it. Half of them took the joke seriously and a lot of them took it seriously! I had to put a disclaimer on it on the Autism sites, saying: "This is a joke, a whole joke and nothing but a joke! Don't take this seriously! People were still bothered by the joke! On at least One Autism site, I got so many negative comments that I just removed it from the site! Other than that, people who are not Autistic loved the joke. This was a few years ago.
i have trouble with friends and family because i used to make rude jokes that went too far and i feel too awkward saying sorry....yea i have trouble saying sorry and thank you
I'm not sure why my brain does what it does its been 35 years since my last shrink visit. See I can read body language very well, but i have hard time understanding people when they talk to me. its almost like what they say doesn't match what there body language is saying. its very confusing. I love telling jokes and i can go to far (inappropriately )very easy, but then i find my self laughing at my own jokes. No apologies from me, that's just who i am.
I have this problem too. And the fact that the line to cross is always different depending on who you are with makes it harder to know where it is and what you can get away with. I adapted to not really understanding a lot of jokes by being the one to tell them, although most of my jokes weren't too funny lol! A nice science joke for you: 2 scientists walk into a bar. One asks "H2O please" and the other asks "H2O too!" (H2O2)
I hate 'embarrassing' humor, I just relate too much with the characters to laugh. It is torture. For example, the first Johnny English movie (I have not seen the second one because the first one is so cringy) I just can't watch, even if I know what is about to happen. Especially because I know what is about to happen. BUT the get smart movie, which is of the same genre, is absolute gold! I just love it! Not embarrassing at all yet veeeery similar. The wierd thing is that, I used to like this 'embarrassing' type too, when I was a kid. I loved Johnny English when I saw it in the cinema. I was a kid. I'm not sure what happened. Maybe it's my theory of mind that has developed or just because as an adult it is easier to relate to other adults...
Hate thar humor as well, not because i dont get it, but because cruelty is just not very funny. Unless its somehow has meanind and is with the one experience it dark humor. Like black adder which has the joke that its cruel, but the people are jerks. Which johnny english just hasnt.
First video I've ever seen by you. I was diagnosed with Aspergers at a very young age, and I like your channel already. I hope I'm welcome to the family :D
Dan I like the way you have a knack of simplifying autism concepts so more people can understand them, and I like the way you use lots of real-life examples to illustrate them. Mae e da iawn!!
Jokes and sarcasm are the hardest things for me to understand. My mom tells me that I've always been really funny, but when I'm with friends I tell the raunchiest jokes. I'm definitely less funny around certain people (just because I get embarrassed super easily). In school it was so hard when teachers would say "where's the sarcasm" or "where's the irony in this" in books, and I've always been like... whatttttt???? I just don't get it and it goes over my head a lot. Cool video! Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you so much Dan for your wonderful insights. My son has Aspergers too. He is still very young and with your insights have been helpful in finding positive tools to be able to teach him so he understands, in a way where his the world perspective is so different to mine. Your vids have certainly improved and positivly impacted us. Thank you.
I find I can be what others consider rude, where I see it as stating the obvious or what should be obvious. Being older I have accepted the fact that I will never be able to read a room, so I am at peace with that. I like comedy but not obvious stupid comedy, but comedy with a great deal of complexity. Great show, I can identify completely.
Lane Romel Of course you can read a room if you practice how to do it, you just need to dedicate some time to learning how to do it ;) Never say never..
Thats the best comedy personally thought out but dark comedy. Because there are usually set ups?! And fun word plays , and unfunny funny that you have time to think about. Running jokes can be fun. And deadpan humor well done.
I love comedy, for example, I watch short funny videos in Instagram and I understand them. But when someone makes a joke I don´t understand it. You said that people with Asperger´s may joke in an unappropiate time, but I´m not keen on making jokes, but I laugh at unappropiate moments, for example if someone is sad I might find it funny. But I don´t really mean it... It´s weird
Makes me wonder about online activists sanitizing the internet. Have noticed they are very often on the spectrum. Is it common impulse to want to stop others from having a laugh. Forcing everyone into their mold.
I like observational humor. An example would be comedian Jerry Seinfeld in his "I'm telling you for the last time" routine. I find that since I interpret everything so literally it's the easiest type of humor for me to convey to others, though sometimes it might be inappropriate and I don't realize it until later.
I punched a lot of stuff when I got angry. I understand completely. I usually try to detach myself when that comes up. I love humor but only when it comes to puns. People have played inappropriate jokes on me all the time & it made me rage. And then they say 'your anger is hilarious!' just because I am 'too nice' to get back at them in a way that'd make them taste what I tasted. I wish I had never met those guys. I agree with you about how we process comedy. But I wish I knew what everything that my 'friends' talked about meant. It's like they started fads & decided to keep me out of it just because of my poor processing skills. Have things like that ever happened to you?
+MrWiiAlex Yeah I hear ya' some things like this when I was in high school. But I learned that I should focus on my passion and real friends will always include you.
MrWiiAlex My dad can be inappropriate that it's creepy.. not often but I feel he doesn't truly know what a father's role is emotionally.. He provided for us etc but it's almost like he doesn't get the father daughter dynamic.. I'm certain my dad's Aspie and I think I am.. Given I've grown up around certain characters not a lot truly shocks me.. maybe you'll grow out of it in time because I'm sure most ppl aren't really that awful and are simply joking.. Ppl can cross the line though.. As far as jokes going over your head.. for me personally I feel like I'm a disappointment because I don't laugh at many things which I consider to be truths.. its already crossed my mind generally.. I only seem to laugh if it's something obsecure I hadn't noticed or really stupid.. or laughing at social 'faux pas' ?? I'm not sure that's the right word.. as in going against societal/social expectations.. This girl was laughing at leaving a bbq I was at.. she was hungry and couldn't be bothered to fix herself a burger so took a meat patty and it was a bit solid and for some reason she found that really funny.... I don't understand how you can laugh at that and I'm sure that's not just an Aspie thing but hey we're all different! If I'm in a restless mood I can laugh at the dumbest things but I'm not sure I could laugh at something quiet mundane.. other times ppl have said something I knew was witty but it went straight over my head.. x2 it's bn a dig at me.. obviously that person and I are on 2 totally different pages and I guess that's something to do with why they're 'having a go' at me..
MrWiiAlex i try to understand emotions but it doesn't work. I can build an attachment to something through an extended period of time. I don't know what this means but every psychiatrist I talk to says I hear all words in monotone. what do I do. note: I live with a form of high functioning autism. sorry if anyone's time has been wasted.
I have made myself an "artificial" filter, but of course it I forget about it sometimes. I just don't understand how so many people get angry about content. To me entertainment in all its forms is about intent, not content.
my brother makes fun of me for my autism and apparent lisp.. I have Aspbegers and I'm 23 and dont even work and can't find a girl friend.. never have had either of those things :(
The Aspie World ya sadly.. and right now I'm going through a rough time with him bullying me,can't find girls to like me and go on dates and my wisdom tooth has a huge cavity hole in it and I'm depressed and afraid of extraction and feeling more ugly.. it's huge and black and brown :/
I either make a joke & no-one laughs or I am just saying something & people find it funny. At college people would laugh at what I said all the time, not in a horrible way, they just thought I was being intentionally funny, when I wasn't. P.S. I like the sort of humor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Ross Noble.
Having been diagnosed for over 10 years now... I still discover more and more difficulties every single day that I thought were long gone but it turns out it just subsided for a little while... It's hard... Even harder to explain mine(our) struggles to anyone. It sucks. 😢😕 Thx for making me feel not as alone!
when i was little i had a friend but this was before but i sat opposite to him in class and i started to day dream and i came back into real life seeing my friend with fear in his eyes (someone moves there hand in front of me to get me out a day dream) and years later i learn when i was day dreaming it looked like i was staring at him and he was freaked out and scared of me. today we laugh a this :) :)
I think there's a lot to "read" about a room of ppl though.. I guess sometimes we fall short of reading what's appropriate given the situation or those particular ppl but I'm sure there are many Aspies who could read the vibe of a room.. as in if there's tension.. or strange energy etc
The Aspie World Have you heard of there being 2 types of empathy - 'Cognitive' and 'Affective' & what are your thoughts on that? Also I and some other female aspies feel we're even more empathic than others..
I would say that sarcasm is communicating a truth through allegory and shared emotion/experience. He seems to understand sarcasm to an extent, but not how to use it appropriately, whereas someone with sociopathy or psychopathy would be able to utilize sarcasm, but not understand when it's being used by others (interesting dichotomy there. Perhaps aspies are super-feelers and cluster b's, like psychopaths and sociopaths are non-feelers...?) I notice that my cousin with aspergers will make really nasty and hurtful jokes, but I tend not to think that's just the aspergers at play. I think he's really hurting and doesn't know how to express it, and that because of that, he is being drawn toward hate groups and hate ideology, which PLAY on his aspergers. This makes me incredibly sad for him.
I had to basically teach myself how sarcasm, jokes, and rhetorical questions work, but I still occasionally get things wrong, either saying something that was too much for most people, or running a joke into the ground. When it comes to understanding it, it really depends on the person, how well I know them and how obvious they make it. Sometime I get it, other times it just flies right over. But ye, I find it a bit difficult to pin what kind of comedy I enjoy watching, but I like a wide variety of stuff. A few examples I can think of off the top of my head being Chowder, Flapjack, Futurama, Asobi Asobase, FLCL, Gabriel DropOut, KonoSuba, Nichijou, and Pop Team Epic.
I'm also a fan of Rick and Morty and people are really snooty about it. But I like how brutally nihilistic the commentary is. It reflects the harsh truths I see in life everyday that people like to pretend aren't there.
I grew up with autism, and I would get offended by jokes extremely easily, and go too far alot, mainly because I wanna joke but I do not know how to do it, which I have heard I am getting better tho
"Read the room," I hate that. I just blurt it out or say nothing... I'm actually a quiet person. I learned young that no one wanted to hear what i had to say, ever. Rick n Morty!!!! YES! At the FIRST PREVIEW I knew I'd like it!
Thank you so much for this video. I was diagnosed at 35, so before I tell a joke, I always start with "this is a joke" Also, I used to punch walls out of frustration, until I broke my thumb on a door jamb.
Two hunters were walking through the forest one day. All of the sudden, one of them passes out. The other hunter panics and dials 911. The emergency responder says “911, whats your emergency?” The hunter replies “My friend just passed out and I don’t know what to do! I think he might be dead!” The emergency responder replies “Before you do anything, make sure he is dead.” The phone goes silent and then the responder hears a gunshot. The hunter gets back on the phone and says “Ok, now what?”
People assume that if i make people uncomfortable with jokes its because i cant read the room. But thats not it. I just like making people uncomfortable. The joke is for me, not for them. Sometimes I try to make someone uncomfortable with a joke and then it turns out theyre just as twisted as me and they add to the joke and its like magic. Like when i asked a soldier if he had killed anyone yet today. He said he hadnt, but it was early in the day.
I have HFA and I find that I have this very weird sense of humor. This can be attributed to my wild imagination, and my knack for writing fictional stories. I LOVE to play around with tropes, imagery, and many literary devices, so much, that I see life as another piece of literary art. This love of lexicon made me major in English in high school. My love of lexicon can present itself in the way I speak (I tend to speak in metaphors)
I don't think I have autism but I definitely have no boundaries with my jokes and say a lot of shit I shouldn't around certain people. But I don't really think about how it affects them its funny to me 😂 and that's why I have no friends.
Just a theoretical conversation that poped into my head when you said read the room. I'm quite fond of my sense of humour and don't really care about reading the room or lack of filter. Sometimes I say really bizarre things and others I've left friends and family in stitches. :D
I notice my daughter along with many kids through teens in my daughter therapy joke but with movie and show lines. sometimes it is borderline not nice but I think it helps everyone just explains what they got from it basically without making someone feel bad. because everyone makes a joke or statement that crosses the line.
Here's a story about me and humour: I just kind of created this image of me that is not serious at all and makes it really obvious I'm joking. This makes me able to get away with making almost any joke I can come up with, and people are enjoying it! For example, it is expected that you take school really seriously. Well, I do, but I decided it was way too boring. So I don't do the standard routine presentation about saving the whales or whatever, and just telling some boring information. For example, I'd make some stupid joke about Japan. They know I'm not being serious, because I set that image. So they laugh. I like to think of it as "educational stand-up comedy". Just a story I'd like to share.
I dont now if you would like it but i like "Prefered parking" With drew lynch and anuther guy that i cant remember the name of right now but they both have disabilitys and make comody about it. Also could you make a video about Autism and Synesthesia
I'm Autistic and I don't have any trouble understanding jokes. But what I get confused by is when other people think a joke is funny when I think it's stupid or a bad joke. There are some jokes that I think are just completely unfunny but other people will laugh at. Also, sometimes, my jokes tend to go over people's heads. It's not that I don't know how to tell a good joke or that I don't know what's funny; it's that their minds don't work on the same level as mine and they don't grasp why I think this particular thing is funny. But I've found some ways to joke about those things that other people can grasp and understand why something just hit me as being funny. But it's all learned skills. I had to learn how to find something funny, structure the joke & deliver it correctly to get the desired effect. And like any other skill, with enough practice, you can become good at it despite it not coming naturally to you. So don't feel bad if you find comedy/jokes confusing or struggle with something/anything. You can always find a way to work it out and learn.
I have a thing for Swedish (which is my mother tongue) practical jokes because Swedish comedians often has that sort of inappropriate humour. Especially plays and impersonations where everything is exaggerated and twisted. (There’s a Swedish movie called YRROL where they literally make both racist and nudity jokes and it wasn’t until I realised that those jokes were super offensive that I stopped thinking they were funny.) Mostly when I joke I’ve either hurt someone or when the joke is too complex for the people in my surroundings. I do, unlike others, use sarcasm in pretty much everything I say whether it be good or bad. But I have realised that if I am uncertain or it is more imbedded into the monologue or text I cannot actually spot it and usually miss out on good jokes.
I’m glad I’m not alone. Don’t have a formal diagnosis but I suspect I fall on the spectrum. I’m here because today someone at work told me “oh, so you do have a funny bone in your body” today after being witty apparently for the first time. “So you are able to be witty”..Don’t think neurotypicals understand how difficult it is for us and also that we naturally reserve our humor for people we feel totally comfortable around-I.e. not around coworkers and strangers.
I make jokes with people I know that are inappropriate and even sometimes with them I'll make an inappropriate one and they'll look at me like I have limbs falling off.
Have you done a video about Aspergers and making friends? I ask because my 19 year old son, who has Aspergers, is away at college, but doesn't seem to want to make an effort to put himself in social situations in which he might connect with others.
Elizabeth Hannah It will be very difficult for him to interact with others in a social situation - research this on Google as it's quite a complex topic, but revolves around social anxiety and social awkwardness..
Yeah, I've been researching autism since he was diagnosed at 5 years old, so I'm no stranger to it. You just never know when someone else's experiences will help you find the key to unlocking your own issue, kwim? Thank for the quick reply!
Elizabeth Hannah Maybe there is a club or group at university which he is interested in, that may help in socialising - what are his (special) interests?
He's in a gaming club that he happened upon in his dorm. He's very passionate about our current political situation, so I've encouraged him to look for others who feel the same way; instead he calls me. At least he calls his mom!
Elizabeth Hannah Well gaming is a club, but members also tend to be social introverts or have social awkwardness, so if possible it would be good for him to join another club or clubs, where he would meet other types of people, but I know it's difficult. What does he believe politically?
I find it really . . frustrating when I have to watch/read tutorials for *anything* is that just me? And do you think that there could be any way for me to be less angry at something so little?
I have aspergers and I like buses my friend said he know someone else who has aspergers and he said he also likes buses he was wondering if all people with aspergers like buses
I'm known as the joke killer among friends, family, and co-workers because I just don't get it unless it's a pun or what they term a "dad" joke. Science jokes, and "dark" humor can be hit and miss for me though depending on the subject.
again i love your way to talk and you are very beautiful ! personnally i have a hard time understanding jokes in general and i keep my jokes for me cause i lack self confidence in that
I got autism, my girlfriend says in a smile way " don't talk to me " or say " I forever hate you" than I get scared after that she tells me it's a joke, so I'm pretty much scared cuz she said it today 😰 without telling me it's a joke, but a little smile
My 15 year old son (high functioning autism) wants to be a stand up comedian. I told him every comedian need his own niche. I thought what if he tells jokes targeted for a.s.d. people? Do you think there would be a market for that?
Yes absolutely. There is a group of Asperger’s guys who travel and do stand up comedy called: Aspergers Are Us!! They are amazing check them out! Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
When I was in elementary school there was this time when blonde jokes were the "big thing". I created one and promptly told it... to a girl with blonde hair.
im autistic and i do actually have aspergers and i have a very dark very dry sense of humour infact it wasnt so much an issue of understanding jokes as more of an issue with me was understanding when people are joking but i have trained myself to recognise the signs and i gwt along much better with humour so much so that my boss has asked me if i can perform half an hour of stand up comedy at works christmas party this year , i have said yes but as long as he doesnt sack me for it the next day lol
After 40+ years i still have trouble with social cues... Not to mention body language is a mystery... (I have adhd+autism+hsp etc etc & for 11 years a partner who has Aspergers)...tmi* Anyways, great video and 1+ sub :)
with me it takes me about 5 to 10 mins to sometimes understand a joke someone says to me but it takes that long for me to sometimes understand anything someone says to me a lot of people don't understand that that even a girl can have aspergers or autism at a higher level
I have Asperger's, I love telling jokes. I'm one of the few Aspies who can actually understand jokes. Here's a joke I wrote Last night: An Autistic Chef made hamburgers out of Donkey meat. He called them: "ASPERGER'S".
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hey again I need your advice please. I have been watching your video alot recently you may know having aspergers and in a main stream school when there is a special needs schol that specialises in autsim on site. recently school has become a lot harder I find it hard to stay in one lesson out of 6 I just find it to hard my teachers don't know how it feels. What do I do
Im imagining how its going to be when i go to my new school well definitly wierd when you have to sit to a stranger so yea and its even more hard because new teachers ... i wish you woud always go to the same school well if your geting bullied then not
I'm Autistic and not only do I understand sarcasm very well but I'm also a huge smartass. Literally 70% of the things I say are sarcastic remarks. It's probably because my Dad is a huge smartass as well. And yes, I do take pride in the fact that I'm a smartass.
You ask what's going on with my hair in like 2 or 3 vids. You have gorgeous hair. Don't need to. Besides I almost didn't watch one once because I thought I'd seen it already because of that.
My 28 year old son gets angry when I explain oh that’s your asbergers. He thinks it’s an insult. I have a learning disability. Now that I know it I take steps to compensate for it. It just is. Not good not bad. It just is. What can I do to help him not feel it’s a criticism?
Get him to look at celebrities with Aspergers feel empowered by them. Thank you so much for the comment! Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
I feel like I'm growing further away from my partner because of the jokes I make and the comments I sometimes come up with don't make sense. I then can't explain them. Any good ways of combatting the awkward comments?
Please don't take offense to this joke! Since I have Asperger's, I feel comfortable writing an Autism joke. I am among the few Aspies who actually understands and loves jokes. Writing jokes helps me deal with my condition of Asperger's. Here's a joke I wrote about Autism: THE AUTISTIC CHEF: An Autistic Chef made Hamburgers out of Donkey meat. He called them: "ASPERGER'S"!
This stuff is so difficult for me to understand. Or explain. I love humor! I just don't always understand when a joke is a joke.
Yeah!!!
I just had a friend block me on fb because I didn't understand a joke they were trying to make
Sometimes I lose friends because I don't get a joke as a joke and think people are teasing me.
I have Autism and I never know when somebody is joking with me or being serious.
Yeah this is a big issues!
The Aspie World It is, and sometimes people get annoyed if I take whatever they say seriously.
Cam Etherington I don't have autism....But I don't know if they are joking too....It's sad and hard....But when I was like 10 or 9 or even 8 I understand every jokes...
trust me with help you can learn like i did and i support you :)
I got a detention because I said to the autistic kid I have a bag of meth but it was just icing sugar for home ec XD
sometimes I have a hard time getting jokes especially if I am not too familiar with the person joking but more often than not i'll make a joke and people don't realize im joking.
+Lexort 420 Yeah!
Lexort 420
Do people laugh at your 'jokes' though?
#420FTW
Rex Apis
Not always no. i guess its not always clear to others that I am making a joke and a fair portion of the time my jokes are taken seriously or literal. i guess from what im told is my sense of humor is dry. so i suppose it makes it easy for misunderstandings to occur.
Lexort 420, that happens to me a lot too. I think I've got a well-developed sense of humour, but I hate it when people make me out to be gullible for their own amusement. I think they're being cruel.
aragornthebrave
Unfortunately a lot of people do behave cruelly, and it's often just them projecting their insecurities and inadequacies on others and animals, especially people they deem to be weaker than themselves, and so they are just bullies at the end of the day & when challenged 99% of the time will just flake
My son is extremely sarcastic , very funny tho . Non aspis can also be inappropriate with jokes and not realise when to stop ,so keep jokeing it's an awesome to be around someone who is happy
As a karate fighter what's my favourite part of a joke?
The punch line!
My jokes are mostly either puns, or I'm making exaggerated comments of things that are currently talked about. Which can be extremly awkward when I _thought_ others were joking, but actually weren't (often happens when the topic is something nsfw..).
The only comedy show I watch and love is Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It's very funny, but I watch it with a completely straight face, which got me some "oh, not your type of humour?" comments.
Ah, thanks for sharing!
This is so true! Just because a lot of people on the spectrum don't understand sarcasm or figurative speech doesn't mean that we don't get jokes. I know plenty of people who are on the spectrum (including myself) and they are some of the funniest people on the planet. WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR AND EMOTIONS, PEOPLE! WE ARE NOT ROBOTS!
+Elizabeth_958 Yes!! Too many people think we are robots!
Im a robot though.
My favorite type of jokes are black humor, science humor, illogical humor, and puns. I ABSOLUTLEY love puns, and I hate most neurotypicals don't like them.
+Eleventh Doctor I love silly comedy and like fun stuff.
Yes, I am the same way. I will use a pun in every way I can think of until it is exhausted, and I find them funny long after others have begun plotting my death. I also frequently get reprimanded for finding something that NT's take very seriously funny. Any tiny detail that is ironic or just doesn't fit the rest of the scenario usually sets me off on a thought path of finding everything humorous about how or why it exists, and even if I tried to explain what I found funny no one around me would understand it.
Barrack Obama opened a 7 11 gas station.
Trump wanted to one up him so he opened an 8 11 right beside Obamas.
Bush wanted to do the same and one up Trump. What store did Bush open? :D
I like puns too. They are harmless that I don’t need to tell if it’s a joke or not because it won’t affect me in a bad way.
@@cidsephtis2273 I went to visit a friend and mentally exhausted his kids with my puns.
I want to thank you so much for these videos on ASD. It makes understanding my son so much easier. And it's nice to know something's that are common with Aspergers. Like my sons literal thinking and when he speaks it's always in a matter of fact way.
+pisceslv8 You are more than welcome
I also have autism to bc when every time im in school ive always hated this feeling when people like to make jokes about autism and the crazy thing is when ever someone is asking me saying what is wrong with u i try to tell them i just have autism and when i tell them that they think i was fucking with them bc i was being serious on them they just dont believe and sad story: it was best for me to hamg out by myself and not let people find out😢
my 2 y/o has autism and I pray that he grows up talking a lot like you and very independent. he just says 4 words and not correctly. you are admirable!
+Yari Rivera Thank you for the kind words. With love and support I am sure he will be just awesome as he grows older!
"take the world as an honest place" this omg. I think it could be connected to how we are often naive (or at least perceived that way) . I've talked to some people who have the same experience as me - that they are used to assuming other people are speaking the truth, but to an extend where they rather trust others than themselves (since we're taught that we're processing the world "wrong")
anyway more about the topic of your video - a majority of autistic people really seem to enjoy puns and all kinds of plays on words. Apparently it has something to do with the way we think, I'm not 100% sure, but that's the kinda jokes many of us can get behind at least^^ I do love puns a lot myself
+starry-eyed deer Yeah it's crazy how alike we all are.
flareontoast I completely agree with everything you said. If there was an Aspie meetup by me, it would make it so much easier.
I have Aspergers and I think that I understand jokes, irony, and sarcasm very well. I was diagnosed at age 19 and when I was younger everyone around me were sarcastic and all so I kind of picked it up. The bad thing about this is everyone says I am really funny, however myself I think I am not funny at all. To put it in short I try to talk normally and everyone is laughing around me and I don't understand why that happens, because I think I didn't say something that funny.
Been diagnosed with 4 forms of autism since i was a toddler.
My favorite jokes are autism jokes.
My 9 year old aspie daughter has a hilarious dry sense of humor and is super quick whitted. Her humor definitely goes over the head of her peers her age lol
I haven't had a meltdown since I stopped talking on a regular basis to my family member who I hate,and who doesn't understand/accept my illness. For example he kept saying "we'll going to have a big serious talk with teachers etc.about my school" when he knew talking about my studies used to trigger. meltdown. His repeating made it worse. I was like "please lets not talk about it,i can't handle it" and he said "yes, oh yes we will talk sbout it."
All my life, I have understood jokes and humor better than most people. Even better than most NTs. I have been telling jokes all my life, since Kindergarten!
I have written a few of my own jokes and even performed on stage. I took a comedy class at Michigan State University. The exam was to actually perform live on stage at a comedy club in front of about 300 people! I was scared to death, but, I did it! Once I overcame most of my fear, it only took a few minutes, it was fun and extremely exciting!
I've never had a problem understanding jokes, but, most Aspies don't understand them very well. I posted a joke on Facebook. I put it on my wall, several joke groups and some Autism and Asperger's pages. Most people understood the joke and really liked it. But, most people on the Autism/Asperger's sites didn't get it. Half of them took the joke seriously and a lot of them took it seriously! I had to put a disclaimer on it on the Autism sites, saying: "This is a joke, a whole joke and nothing but a joke! Don't take this seriously! People were still bothered by the joke! On at least One Autism site, I got so many negative comments that I just removed it from the site!
Other than that, people who are not Autistic loved the joke. This was a few years ago.
i have trouble with friends and family because i used to make rude jokes that went too far and i feel too awkward saying sorry....yea i have trouble saying sorry and thank you
+Animal Girl Hey that's ok, we all have our difficulties.
YES TOTALLY THE SAME WAY! i dont has a filter..... XD
I'm not sure why my brain does what it does its been 35 years since my last shrink visit. See I can read body language very well, but i have hard time understanding people when they talk to me. its almost like what they say doesn't match what there body language is saying. its very confusing. I love telling jokes and i can go to far (inappropriately )very easy, but then i find my self laughing at my own jokes. No apologies from me, that's just who i am.
I have this problem too. And the fact that the line to cross is always different depending on who you are with makes it harder to know where it is and what you can get away with. I adapted to not really understanding a lot of jokes by being the one to tell them, although most of my jokes weren't too funny lol!
A nice science joke for you: 2 scientists walk into a bar. One asks "H2O please" and the other asks "H2O too!" (H2O2)
I hate 'embarrassing' humor, I just relate too much with the characters to laugh. It is torture. For example, the first Johnny English movie (I have not seen the second one because the first one is so cringy) I just can't watch, even if I know what is about to happen. Especially because I know what is about to happen. BUT the get smart movie, which is of the same genre, is absolute gold! I just love it! Not embarrassing at all yet veeeery similar.
The wierd thing is that, I used to like this 'embarrassing' type too, when I was a kid. I loved Johnny English when I saw it in the cinema. I was a kid. I'm not sure what happened. Maybe it's my theory of mind that has developed or just because as an adult it is easier to relate to other adults...
Hate thar humor as well, not because i dont get it, but because cruelty is just not very funny. Unless its somehow has meanind and is with the one experience it dark humor. Like black adder which has the joke that its cruel, but the people are jerks. Which johnny english just hasnt.
My jokes are all about being Cynical and satirical
Ah
Autism powers
First video I've ever seen by you. I was diagnosed with Aspergers at a very young age, and I like your channel already. I hope I'm welcome to the family :D
+Loui Gamer Thank you!
Dan I like the way you have a knack of simplifying autism concepts so more people can understand them, and I like the way you use lots of real-life examples to illustrate them. Mae e da iawn!!
+aragornthebrave Diolch!
Jokes and sarcasm are the hardest things for me to understand. My mom tells me that I've always been really funny, but when I'm with friends I tell the raunchiest jokes. I'm definitely less funny around certain people (just because I get embarrassed super easily). In school it was so hard when teachers would say "where's the sarcasm" or "where's the irony in this" in books, and I've always been like... whatttttt???? I just don't get it and it goes over my head a lot. Cool video! Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you so much Dan for your wonderful insights. My son has Aspergers too. He is still very young and with your insights have been helpful in finding positive tools to be able to teach him so he understands, in a way where his the world perspective is so different to mine.
Your vids have certainly improved and positivly impacted us. Thank you.
+Holly Melrose Hey, that is so awesome! Thank you so much for the kind words!
I find I can be what others consider rude, where I see it as stating the obvious or what should be obvious.
Being older I have accepted the fact that I will never be able to read a room, so I am at peace with that.
I like comedy but not obvious stupid comedy, but comedy with a great deal of complexity.
Great show, I can identify completely.
Lane Romel
Of course you can read a room if you practice how to do it, you just need to dedicate some time to learning how to do it ;) Never say never..
Thats the best comedy personally thought out but dark comedy. Because there are usually set ups?! And fun word plays , and unfunny funny that you have time to think about. Running jokes can be fun.
And deadpan humor well done.
I love comedy, for example, I watch short funny videos in Instagram and I understand them. But when someone makes a joke I don´t understand it. You said that people with Asperger´s may joke in an unappropiate time, but I´m not keen on making jokes, but I laugh at unappropiate moments, for example if someone is sad I might find it funny. But I don´t really mean it... It´s weird
Please keep going with your videos!! They're super useful and many ppl appreciate them :') thanks for helping everyone understand autism better
+Geraldine Rodríguez Hey thank you so much for the comment 😁✌🏻. I will do my best.
I like Family Guy Humor
Family guy is awesome
Yepp
Makes me wonder about online activists sanitizing the internet. Have noticed they are very often on the spectrum.
Is it common impulse to want to stop others from having a laugh. Forcing everyone into their mold.
I like observational humor. An example would be comedian Jerry Seinfeld in his "I'm telling you for the last time" routine. I find that since I interpret everything so literally it's the easiest type of humor for me to convey to others, though sometimes it might be inappropriate and I don't realize it until later.
I punched a lot of stuff when I got angry. I understand completely. I usually try to detach myself when that comes up. I love humor but only when it comes to puns. People have played inappropriate jokes on me all the time & it made me rage. And then they say 'your anger is hilarious!' just because I am 'too nice' to get back at them in a way that'd make them taste what I tasted. I wish I had never met those guys. I agree with you about how we process comedy. But I wish I knew what everything that my 'friends' talked about meant. It's like they started fads & decided to keep me out of it just because of my poor processing skills. Have things like that ever happened to you?
+MrWiiAlex Yeah I hear ya' some things like this when I was in high school. But I learned that I should focus on my passion and real friends will always include you.
The Aspie World exactly. I wish I realized it sooner
MrWiiAlex My dad can be inappropriate that it's creepy.. not often but I feel he doesn't truly know what a father's role is emotionally.. He provided for us etc but it's almost like he doesn't get the father daughter dynamic.. I'm certain my dad's Aspie and I think I am.. Given I've grown up around certain characters not a lot truly shocks me.. maybe you'll grow out of it in time because I'm sure most ppl aren't really that awful and are simply joking.. Ppl can cross the line though.. As far as jokes going over your head.. for me personally I feel like I'm a disappointment because I don't laugh at many things which I consider to be truths.. its already crossed my mind generally.. I only seem to laugh if it's something obsecure I hadn't noticed or really stupid.. or laughing at social 'faux pas' ?? I'm not sure that's the right word.. as in going against societal/social expectations.. This girl was laughing at leaving a bbq I was at.. she was hungry and couldn't be bothered to fix herself a burger so took a meat patty and it was a bit solid and for some reason she found that really funny.... I don't understand how you can laugh at that and I'm sure that's not just an Aspie thing but hey we're all different! If I'm in a restless mood I can laugh at the dumbest things but I'm not sure I could laugh at something quiet mundane.. other times ppl have said something I knew was witty but it went straight over my head.. x2 it's bn a dig at me.. obviously that person and I are on 2 totally different pages and I guess that's something to do with why they're 'having a go' at me..
MrWiiAlex i try to understand emotions but it doesn't work. I can build an attachment to something through an extended period of time. I don't know what this means but every psychiatrist I talk to says I hear all words in monotone. what do I do. note: I live with a form of high functioning autism. sorry if anyone's time has been wasted.
Geron Kincaid You're almost as apologetic as I am. You don't have to say sorry. This is a comment section for a channel about autism. Just "ease up".
I have made myself an "artificial" filter, but of course it I forget about it sometimes. I just don't understand how so many people get angry about content. To me entertainment in all its forms is about intent, not content.
+Autistic Geek That's a very interesting way to look at it, thank you for the comment.
my brother makes fun of me for my autism and apparent lisp.. I have Aspbegers and I'm 23 and dont even work and can't find a girl friend.. never have had either of those things :(
Siblings can be nasty.
The Aspie World ya sadly.. and right now I'm going through a rough time with him bullying me,can't find girls to like me and go on dates and my wisdom tooth has a huge cavity hole in it and I'm depressed and afraid of extraction and feeling more ugly.. it's huge and black and brown :/
I either make a joke & no-one laughs or I am just saying something & people find it funny. At college people would laugh at what I said all the time, not in a horrible way, they just thought I was being intentionally funny, when I wasn't.
P.S. I like the sort of humor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Ross Noble.
+Sammy Ariel Yeah, I think you just need to find the jokes you enjoy.
Same! People always laugh when I say things when I am not joking. I don't understand it ?
Having been diagnosed for over 10 years now... I still discover more and more difficulties every single day that I thought were long gone but it turns out it just subsided for a little while... It's hard... Even harder to explain mine(our) struggles to anyone. It sucks. 😢😕 Thx for making me feel not as alone!
Hey!! So happy you don’t feel alone :)!! ✌🏼Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
when i was little i had a friend but this was before but i sat opposite to him in class and i started to day dream and i came back into real life seeing my friend with fear in his eyes (someone moves there hand in front of me to get me out a day dream) and years later i learn when i was day dreaming it looked like i was staring at him and he was freaked out and scared of me. today we laugh a this :) :)
I've been known to take things too far. I've cracked jokes that I thought were hilarious, but fell flat and I didn't understand why. I love puns!
I love puns also.
I think there's a lot to "read" about a room of ppl though.. I guess sometimes we fall short of reading what's appropriate given the situation or those particular ppl but I'm sure there are many Aspies who could read the vibe of a room.. as in if there's tension.. or strange energy etc
+Kasandra Yeah, I guess but I find it difficult :/.
The Aspie World Have you heard of there being 2 types of empathy - 'Cognitive' and 'Affective' & what are your thoughts on that? Also I and some other female aspies feel we're even more empathic than others..
I would say that sarcasm is communicating a truth through allegory and shared emotion/experience. He seems to understand sarcasm to an extent, but not how to use it appropriately, whereas someone with sociopathy or psychopathy would be able to utilize sarcasm, but not understand when it's being used by others (interesting dichotomy there. Perhaps aspies are super-feelers and cluster b's, like psychopaths and sociopaths are non-feelers...?) I notice that my cousin with aspergers will make really nasty and hurtful jokes, but I tend not to think that's just the aspergers at play. I think he's really hurting and doesn't know how to express it, and that because of that, he is being drawn toward hate groups and hate ideology, which PLAY on his aspergers. This makes me incredibly sad for him.
Thats sad, hategroops target in social vunerable, i hope he is gotten out but probably not sadly.
I had to basically teach myself how sarcasm, jokes, and rhetorical questions work, but I still occasionally get things wrong, either saying something that was too much for most people, or running a joke into the ground.
When it comes to understanding it, it really depends on the person, how well I know them and how obvious they make it. Sometime I get it, other times it just flies right over.
But ye, I find it a bit difficult to pin what kind of comedy I enjoy watching, but I like a wide variety of stuff. A few examples I can think of off the top of my head being Chowder, Flapjack, Futurama, Asobi Asobase, FLCL, Gabriel DropOut, KonoSuba, Nichijou, and Pop Team Epic.
I'm also a fan of Rick and Morty and people are really snooty about it. But I like how brutally nihilistic the commentary is. It reflects the harsh truths I see in life everyday that people like to pretend aren't there.
I grew up with autism, and I would get offended by jokes extremely easily, and go too far alot, mainly because I wanna joke but I do not know how to do it, which I have heard I am getting better tho
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My son has a thing for puns... horrible puns that he will go on to explain afterwards but he is 11.
+Coral Fish Ywah!
"Read the room," I hate that. I just blurt it out or say nothing... I'm actually a quiet person. I learned young that no one wanted to hear what i had to say, ever.
Rick n Morty!!!! YES! At the FIRST PREVIEW I knew I'd like it!
I ask "How can I read a room? It's not a book!"
Thank you so much for this video. I was diagnosed at 35, so before I tell a joke, I always start with "this is a joke" Also, I used to punch walls out of frustration, until I broke my thumb on a door jamb.
Two hunters were walking through the forest one day. All of the sudden, one of them passes out. The other hunter panics and dials 911. The emergency responder says “911, whats your emergency?” The hunter replies “My friend just passed out and I don’t know what to do! I think he might be dead!” The emergency responder replies “Before you do anything, make sure he is dead.” The phone goes silent and then the responder hears a gunshot. The hunter gets back on the phone and says “Ok, now what?”
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Haha I'm dying I get the joke😁😁😂😂😂😅😅
Lmao
People assume that if i make people uncomfortable with jokes its because i cant read the room. But thats not it. I just like making people uncomfortable. The joke is for me, not for them. Sometimes I try to make someone uncomfortable with a joke and then it turns out theyre just as twisted as me and they add to the joke and its like magic. Like when i asked a soldier if he had killed anyone yet today. He said he hadnt, but it was early in the day.
I have HFA and I find that I have this very weird sense of humor. This can be attributed to my wild imagination, and my knack for writing fictional stories. I LOVE to play around with tropes, imagery, and many literary devices, so much, that I see life as another piece of literary art. This love of lexicon made me major in English in high school. My love of lexicon can present itself in the way I speak (I tend to speak in metaphors)
I don't think I have autism but I definitely have no boundaries with my jokes and say a lot of shit I shouldn't around certain people. But I don't really think about how it affects them its funny to me 😂 and that's why I have no friends.
"Read the room"
"Dude! The only words in this room are 'Live, Laugh & Love'.... what does that have to do with blending penguins?"
Eh?
Just a theoretical conversation that poped into my head when you said read the room.
I'm quite fond of my sense of humour and don't really care about reading the room or lack of filter. Sometimes I say really bizarre things and others I've left friends and family in stitches. :D
I notice my daughter along with many kids through teens in my daughter therapy joke but with movie and show lines. sometimes it is borderline not nice but I think it helps everyone just explains what they got from it basically without making someone feel bad. because everyone makes a joke or statement that crosses the line.
+datumzinememories Yeah that's true, support and just an understanding helps.
Here's a story about me and humour: I just kind of created this image of me that is not serious at all and makes it really obvious I'm joking. This makes me able to get away with making almost any joke I can come up with, and people are enjoying it! For example, it is expected that you take school really seriously. Well, I do, but I decided it was way too boring. So I don't do the standard routine presentation about saving the whales or whatever, and just telling some boring information. For example, I'd make some stupid joke about Japan. They know I'm not being serious, because I set that image. So they laugh. I like to think of it as "educational stand-up comedy". Just a story I'd like to share.
I dont now if you would like it but i like "Prefered parking" With drew lynch and anuther guy that i cant remember the name of right now but they both have disabilitys and make comody about it. Also could you make a video about Autism and Synesthesia
Do people with Asperger's syndrome not get jokes easily?
Because I really have a hard time getting jokes.
Omg, your are beautiful! Your eyes!
+Marine Summer Haha, thanks!
I'm Autistic and I don't have any trouble understanding jokes. But what I get confused by is when other people think a joke is funny when I think it's stupid or a bad joke. There are some jokes that I think are just completely unfunny but other people will laugh at. Also, sometimes, my jokes tend to go over people's heads. It's not that I don't know how to tell a good joke or that I don't know what's funny; it's that their minds don't work on the same level as mine and they don't grasp why I think this particular thing is funny. But I've found some ways to joke about those things that other people can grasp and understand why something just hit me as being funny. But it's all learned skills. I had to learn how to find something funny, structure the joke & deliver it correctly to get the desired effect. And like any other skill, with enough practice, you can become good at it despite it not coming naturally to you. So don't feel bad if you find comedy/jokes confusing or struggle with something/anything. You can always find a way to work it out and learn.
I have a thing for Swedish (which is my mother tongue) practical jokes because Swedish comedians often has that sort of inappropriate humour. Especially plays and impersonations where everything is exaggerated and twisted.
(There’s a Swedish movie called YRROL where they literally make both racist and nudity jokes and it wasn’t until I realised that those jokes were super offensive that I stopped thinking they were funny.)
Mostly when I joke I’ve either hurt someone or when the joke is too complex for the people in my surroundings. I do, unlike others, use sarcasm in pretty much everything I say whether it be good or bad. But I have realised that if I am uncertain or it is more imbedded into the monologue or text I cannot actually spot it and usually miss out on good jokes.
Oh interesting!!
I’m glad I’m not alone. Don’t have a formal diagnosis but I suspect I fall on the spectrum. I’m here because today someone at work told me “oh, so you do have a funny bone in your body” today after being witty apparently for the first time. “So you are able to be witty”..Don’t think neurotypicals understand how difficult it is for us and also that we naturally reserve our humor for people we feel totally comfortable around-I.e. not around coworkers and strangers.
I make jokes with people I know that are inappropriate and even sometimes with them I'll make an inappropriate one and they'll look at me like I have limbs falling off.
+Brianna C Haha, yup I get that!
Is "What's going on with my hair?" your catchphrase?
Haha it was!! Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
As people with autism we do actually have have amazing brains.
I just found out that i have autism last week, but i don't know a lot about it yet
+iolo Oh that is cool, look around all my videos and they may help 😁✌🏻.
well done on your videos Dan, you've got loads of confidence and hard work to make these,
+John Johnson Thank you so much! Yes it is difficult and demanding but the response is awesome and I love helping!
do you have some examples of specific things you have found funny, or jokes you have tried to tell and failed? I'm really curious
Erm, yeah really odd satire. The League Of Gentlemen
I have problems with boundaries and filters. I am working on this.
+Jon B Yeah, it's cool. We all are 😁✌🏻.
Read the room is a rude thing to say to us.
*WE CAN'T READ THE ROOM*
Have you done a video about Aspergers and making friends? I ask because my 19 year old son, who has Aspergers, is away at college, but doesn't seem to want to make an effort to put himself in social situations in which he might connect with others.
Elizabeth Hannah
It will be very difficult for him to interact with others in a social situation - research this on Google as it's quite a complex topic, but revolves around social anxiety and social awkwardness..
Yeah, I've been researching autism since he was diagnosed at 5 years old, so I'm no stranger to it. You just never know when someone else's experiences will help you find the key to unlocking your own issue, kwim? Thank for the quick reply!
Elizabeth Hannah
Maybe there is a club or group at university which he is interested in, that may help in socialising - what are his (special) interests?
He's in a gaming club that he happened upon in his dorm. He's very passionate about our current political situation, so I've encouraged him to look for others who feel the same way; instead he calls me. At least he calls his mom!
Elizabeth Hannah
Well gaming is a club, but members also tend to be social introverts or have social awkwardness, so if possible it would be good for him to join another club or clubs, where he would meet other types of people, but I know it's difficult.
What does he believe politically?
I find it really . . frustrating when I have to watch/read tutorials for *anything* is that just me? And do you think that there could be any way for me to be less angry at something so little?
I have autism and five disorders but I’m not mad because it is understand
I have aspergers and I like buses my friend said he know someone else who has aspergers and he said he also likes buses he was wondering if all people with aspergers like buses
Leon Marshall Vlogs
Buses are cool, but it sounds like that's your particular special interest..
+Leon Marshall Vlogs I don't like busses as in sitting on and traveling on them.
+Rex Apis Yes.
Do you have trouble displaying your emotions?
Nope.
Oh you meant the dude in the video.
I'm known as the joke killer among friends, family, and co-workers because I just don't get it unless it's a pun or what they term a "dad" joke. Science jokes, and "dark" humor can be hit and miss for me though depending on the subject.
Same, some people at my school absolutely hate me for it, because the cause is my autism because I learn jokes a bit different.
again i love your way to talk and you are very beautiful !
personnally i have a hard time understanding jokes in general and i keep my jokes for me cause i lack self confidence in that
Thank you!!!
I wish I had the bravery to talk about all this crap like you do. I feel like a nob sometimes, it gets me down.
+Skelloween Don't let anything get you down!
Thank you. =)
I got autism, my girlfriend says in a smile way " don't talk to me " or say " I forever hate you" than I get scared after that she tells me it's a joke, so I'm pretty much scared cuz she said it today 😰 without telling me it's a joke, but a little smile
My 15 year old son (high functioning autism) wants to be a stand up comedian. I told him every comedian need his own niche. I thought what if he tells jokes targeted for a.s.d. people? Do you think there would be a market for that?
Yes absolutely. There is a group of Asperger’s guys who travel and do stand up comedy called: Aspergers Are Us!! They are amazing check them out! Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
When I was in elementary school there was this time when blonde jokes were the "big thing". I created one and promptly told it... to a girl with blonde hair.
im autistic and i do actually have aspergers and i have a very dark very dry sense of humour infact it wasnt so much an issue of understanding jokes as more of an issue with me was understanding when people are joking but i have trained myself to recognise the signs and i gwt along much better with humour so much so that my boss has asked me if i can perform half an hour of stand up comedy at works christmas party this year , i have said yes but as long as he doesnt sack me for it the next day lol
After 40+ years i still have trouble with social cues... Not to mention body language is a mystery...
(I have adhd+autism+hsp etc etc & for 11 years a partner who has Aspergers)...tmi*
Anyways, great video and 1+ sub :)
with me it takes me about 5 to 10 mins to sometimes understand a joke someone says to me but it takes that long for me to sometimes understand anything someone says to me a lot of people don't understand that that even a girl can have aspergers or autism at a higher level
+Kiddly3000 Yeah that's right! In my last video I interview a girl on the spectrum.
I have Asperger's, I love telling jokes. I'm one of the few Aspies who can actually understand jokes.
Here's a joke I wrote Last night:
An Autistic Chef made hamburgers out of Donkey meat. He called them:
"ASPERGER'S".
Just thought I would mention I am having trouble signing up to your mailing list. It says that I have tried to subscribe too many times with the email address I am trying to use. Can you help?
Dan, you can learn how jokes and sarcasm work, and familiarise yourself with many types of humour, so that it's not so awkward..
+Rex Apis Thanks for the advice!
The Aspie World hay man i like your videos i was wondering if you had skype or some kind of thig i whould like to actully chat with you
hey again I need your advice please. I have been watching your video alot recently you may know having aspergers and in a main stream school when there is a special needs schol that specialises in autsim on site. recently school has become a lot harder I find it hard to stay in one lesson out of 6 I just find it to hard my teachers don't know how it feels. What do I do
+ellie lawrence I would ask the teachers or your parents / guardians to ask for a referral to a different class.
Yer taking words literally and breaking it into many meanings.
Im imagining how its going to be when i go to my new school well definitly wierd when you have to sit to a stranger so yea and its even more hard because new teachers ... i wish you woud always go to the same school well if your geting bullied then not
I'm Autistic and not only do I understand sarcasm very well but I'm also a huge smartass. Literally 70% of the things I say are sarcastic remarks. It's probably because my Dad is a huge smartass as well. And yes, I do take pride in the fact that I'm a smartass.
Question, where did other Aspies get jokes from anyway?
You ask what's going on with my hair in like 2 or 3 vids. You have gorgeous hair. Don't need to. Besides I almost didn't watch one once because I thought I'd seen it already because of that.
Oooo haha it was an old catchphrase sorry 🤪. Make sure you are subscribed and have the notifications turned on :).
This affects me totally!
+Bricks for Maxx Yeah!
3:50 Look, it says gullible on the ceeling.
Just read the room.
It's just a joke bro.
My 28 year old son gets angry when I explain oh that’s your asbergers. He thinks it’s an insult. I have a learning disability. Now that I know it I take steps to compensate for it. It just is. Not good not bad. It just is. What can I do to help him not feel it’s a criticism?
Get him to look at celebrities with Aspergers feel empowered by them. Thank you so much for the comment! Please subscribe to my channel to see more videos from me :).
I feel like I'm growing further away from my partner because of the jokes I make and the comments I sometimes come up with don't make sense. I then can't explain them. Any good ways of combatting the awkward comments?
amelia.exe
Is it not over already?
Rex Apis what??
amelia.exe
Your latest video says it's over
Rex Apis huh??? That's just the video - nothing is over :/
That's just to go with the song
I had to laugh when you said someone told you to "read the room". That'd gotta be about the most unhelpful advice someone could give
I relate to this so much!!!!!😂🤦♀️
I can so relate to this! I love science jokes too :)
Please don't take offense to this joke!
Since I have Asperger's, I feel comfortable writing an Autism joke. I am among the few Aspies who actually understands and loves jokes. Writing jokes helps me deal with my condition of Asperger's.
Here's a joke I wrote about Autism:
THE AUTISTIC CHEF:
An Autistic Chef made Hamburgers out of Donkey meat.
He called them:
"ASPERGER'S"!
You should watch Bravest Warriors! It's on youtube!
I DO!! I collect their comics and also action figures
I'm actually brutally honest guy, most the time get me n trouble, & no i dont has a filter! :D