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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 422788" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>I keep hearing about Aspies not getting jokes, even sometimes when they are explained. And I can see this clearly - Jett will laugh, loudly, at something that he perceives as "should be funny". Or when others laugh. Many times, it's inappropriate laughter - way too loudly for the joke, usually (i.e., I snicker and that's it... He laughs and laughs...). Many cartoons he laughs at uproariously - and the rest of us are left wondering what the joke was. He will stop laughing when it is clear no one else is laughing. Or - what drives me NUTS - is he will laugh at something that's NOT funny at all, for instance at the dinner table and husband burns his mouth on hot food, Jett is laughing loudly; or Onyxx has had a bad day, Jett will laugh (this is usually after he's been told something is none of his business - he will comment inappropriately, too). Used to be it was only things like belching or passing gas, which we've been working on as inappropriate at <em>our</em> dinner table. Now it's almost anything.</p><p> </p><p>We've been trying to teach him, when he does not understand a joke, to ask instead of laughing. Typical response to someone telling someone else a joke, and Jett overhears: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I don't get it. (Err...)</p><p> </p><p>There are times that I just don't find certain things funny. A lot of people like the Austin Powers movies, and "Dumb and Dumber"... I just don't understand why they are so funny. To me? They're painful to watch. husband once asked me why, then, I liked the movie "Dogma". Well... Between the subtle Catholic jokes, and my 8 years in Catholic school...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 422788, member: 6705"] I keep hearing about Aspies not getting jokes, even sometimes when they are explained. And I can see this clearly - Jett will laugh, loudly, at something that he perceives as "should be funny". Or when others laugh. Many times, it's inappropriate laughter - way too loudly for the joke, usually (i.e., I snicker and that's it... He laughs and laughs...). Many cartoons he laughs at uproariously - and the rest of us are left wondering what the joke was. He will stop laughing when it is clear no one else is laughing. Or - what drives me NUTS - is he will laugh at something that's NOT funny at all, for instance at the dinner table and husband burns his mouth on hot food, Jett is laughing loudly; or Onyxx has had a bad day, Jett will laugh (this is usually after he's been told something is none of his business - he will comment inappropriately, too). Used to be it was only things like belching or passing gas, which we've been working on as inappropriate at [I]our[/I] dinner table. Now it's almost anything. We've been trying to teach him, when he does not understand a joke, to ask instead of laughing. Typical response to someone telling someone else a joke, and Jett overhears: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I don't get it. (Err...) There are times that I just don't find certain things funny. A lot of people like the Austin Powers movies, and "Dumb and Dumber"... I just don't understand why they are so funny. To me? They're painful to watch. husband once asked me why, then, I liked the movie "Dogma". Well... Between the subtle Catholic jokes, and my 8 years in Catholic school... [/QUOTE]
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