Do You Laugh Much ???

[Hopeless_Aspie_Guy]

Depression and anxiety has probably reduced how much I do, but I probably laughed for the first time this year watching this video on youtube last night, but otherwise people have occasionally commented that they've never seen me laugh and I watch and engage with other people and the majority of what they find funny as they laugh repeatedly (not necessarily hysterically) throughout a conversation in some cases. I have no problem laughing out loud if I find something funny and normally that's what I do, but even before my anxiety and depression I found myself laughing less than most people still. Stand-up comedy that I've not seen before can make me laugh sometimes, but never if it's me seeing them live.

 

[Adder1234]

Not openly, mostly because I tend to scare people by laughing. I actually have a really loud voice, so when I laugh it sound like I'm shouting at the top of my lungs. Sometimes I chuckle, but that's about it.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Laughter is one of the things that keeps me going. If I don't laugh, I cry. And I do. Fortunately I find a lot of things funny.

 

[xudo]

Yeah I'd say a laugh pretty often. @VenomousAlbino and I do watch quite a few stand-ups on dvd (too expensive to see most live, and too many people) and we laugh a lot. There are quite a lot of programmes on TV though that are supposed to be comedy, and we just can't see what's funny.

 

[toothless]

Yeah I'd say a laugh pretty often. @VenomousAlbino and I do watch quite a few stand-ups on dvd (too expensive to see most live, and too many people) and we laugh a lot. There are quite a lot of programmes on TV though that are supposed to be comedy, and we just can't see what's funny.

i dont want to take this to off topic to far [but you know,it is about laughter and such] but whats your opinion of louis ck;as a standup comedian? ive not met to many other brits who know of him.
ive got one of his DVDs [some bstard robbed it off me at my old place] and i loved his humour.

as for laughter,im a relaxed face sort of person even when i find something really funny,i tend to laugh when its random sort of stuff in my life,like seeing someone skid on dog poo [not a figment of my non existant imagination,i have seen that before] when people fall over and so forth,im easily pleased.
im either in straight faced mode or mega happy face mode,but laughing is quite a hard concept to 'get',its a form of communication i suppose to tell others something is amusing you,and i lack that interest in communicating my amusements to people.

 

[xudo]

i dont want to take this to off topic to far [but you know,it is about laughter and such] but whats your opinion of louis ck;as a standup comedian? ive not met to many other brits who know of him.
ive got one of his DVDs [some bstard robbed it off me at my old place] and i loved his humour.

I have heard of him, but so far we haven't got round to watching a full stand up by him, just a few bits here and there. The stuff I have seen has been funny, so we really should make an effort to watch a full show.

as for laughter,im a relaxed face sort of person even when i find something really funny,i tend to laugh when its random sort of stuff in my life,like seeing someone skid on dog poo [not a figment of my non existant imagination,i have seen that before] when people fall over and so forth,im easily pleased.

Genuinely once saw a guy slip on a discarded banana peel

 

[toothless]

I have heard of him, but so far we haven't got round to watching a full stand up by him, just a few bits here and there. The stuff I have seen has been funny, so we really should make an effort to watch a full show.



Genuinely once saw a guy slip on a discarded banana peel

re.louis ck.
if you have a bit of spare time just watch one of his full shows,he is so funny without being shockingly nasty to anyone or any group,i can strongly recommend his 'hilarious' show,i got it from HMV at the trafford centre and also downloaded it as i was to lazy to copy it to my laptop but amazon is much cheaper if you want a hard copy of it,just checked- £7,i paid £18.99 for it i think but that was a while ago and the stand up comedy section at HMV is a rip off.

re.banana peel.
very funny, how stereotypical can you get-slipping on a banana peel?
the noteable guy i saw slip in dog poo had it right up the back of his leg and he looked around and walked on like he was trying to pretend it didnt happen, made me LOL even more.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I laugh to fit in (i.e when other people are doing so and I don't understand a joke, I also do it to stop myself from crying and cover up the pain i'm feeling).

 

[tree]

Two classical views of the world

 

[abby normal]

laughing keeps me sane, or is a barometer of my sanity.

 

[Stitch]

I don't laugh a whole lot when there are other people around. I have a loud laugh, so it's partly because because I don't want to draw attention to myself, and partly because I'd rather not have people tell me to stop laughing because they think it's obnoxious. (It's happened before and it's not pleasant.)

That being said, I do try to smile when I'm amused or it's clear that the others around me are amused, so that it doesn't look like I'm a robot. Sometimes I have to fake laughter/smiles, simply because I don't find things funny that a lot of other people do; I have not yet become proficient in that art. ...And other times I have to stifle it because I don't want to try to explain what I found funny. It can be pretty wearing.

 

[abby normal]

99.99% of what I see on tv or hear on the radio fails to elicit a smile out of me or even make the corner of my mouth move.

 

[Jerome]

My sense of humor was forced upon me. My AA sponsor keenly noted that I used humor as a defensive tool whenever someone touched certain emotional sore points in me. My family used to laugh at my awkwardness when I was a kid, so I earned the nuances of humor. When I smoked pot and drank alcohol I was often in a state of euphoria that led me to laugh heartily. I was literally drunk all the time, so laughter became a key part of my personality. When I got into recovery the laughter remained. I have an Aspie friend who's daughter is autistic. She fell in love with the way I laughed and asked me to teach her how to laugh like I do. Last week her mom told me she laughs just like I do. Obviously she had me under observation and mimicked my laugh.

 

[Keigan]

I try to laugh as often as I can though it rarely shows up, sometimes I laugh at really morbid things in private.

 

[Hopeless_Aspie_Guy]

My AA sponsor

In the UK (not sure if that's where you're from or not) the AA is best known as a car breakdown recovery service with other car based products and road maps services offered

I have an Aspie friend who's daughter is autistic. She fell in love with the way I laughed and asked me to teach her how to laugh like I do. Last week her mom told me she laughs just like I do. Obviously she had me under observation and mimicked my laugh.

From young to late childhood my laugh changed in the way it sounded and has been that way ever since.