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View Poll Results: Do You Have Trouble Understanding Humour? | |
Yes, I am usually the last person to get a joke.
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Yes, I often have trouble with humour but I am getting better.
|    | 4 | 11.43% | |
Sometimes I have trouble with humour and/or I have trouble with certain types of humour only.
|    | 6 | 17.14% | |
No, I understand most humour.
|    | 21 | 60.00% | 
20-02-2008, 12:58 PM
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Yeah being Data would be cool. Do you remember that episode from TNG where the young boy lost his parents in an accident and he was trying to imitate Data in order to not feel his grief? I really related to that episode. |
20-02-2008, 12:59 PM
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Oh, yeah - I remember that one. He didn't make it trying to be Data any better then i do. =\ |
20-02-2008, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by batgirl  Did you have delayed speech as a child? That's one of the major indicators of autism vs. aspergers. Kids with aspergers tend to speak at a normal age or even younger, whereas kids with autism usually have severe speech delays and need speech therapy. I wasn't speaking properly until around 6 or 7. |
No, my parents told me my speaking abilities developed slightly faster than average. I googled the word neurotypical, and based on the Wikipedia definition it is not a word I would use to describe myself. |
20-02-2008, 11:47 PM
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I'm into sarcasm & satire. I don't get slapstick comedy or premeditated jokes. I actually get quite anxious when someone says I'm going to tell a joke, because I just know I'm not going to get it. I won't laugh. I don't laugh at comedys where it's all set up & staged. I get so anxious that I go blank and don't know where the punchline is, and often am the last to get it. Depending on the company I may ask for clarification but often I fake it by laughing with everyone else.
And BTW, who the hell is Data & Spock? |
21-02-2008, 01:08 AM
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I am a bit strange when it comes to humour. I usually get it, and can give it...and understand humour quite well.
However, there are situations where I really struggle. The first reason is my hearing... sometimes if I'm in a loud place and concentrating on hearing someone, I'm concentrating so hard I just hear things very literally. In situations like that I miss jokes. But also, when I'm overloaded, and 'shutting down' or in a fugue state, I find it very hard to make sense of things, and find myself only understand very literal talk as well. In these cases I actually can appear rude myself, because I'm expressionless and communicating very simplistically. |
21-02-2008, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Awakening And BTW, who the hell is Data & Spock? | Characters from the TV program "Star Trek". Data - an android who has no emotion however tries to understand emotion. Spock - an alien whose race suppresses emotions. Spock is half human though, so he struggles with emotions.
Jim. |
22-02-2008, 01:16 AM
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Thanks Jim, I had no idea that Star Trek was so deep. |
23-02-2008, 05:32 AM
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I heard something about his character being created to be autistic, or have autistic traits or something? not sure... it was a while ago I saw the doc! |
23-02-2008, 06:29 AM
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Which character Lisa? Spock or Data or some other character? That's cool though if it's true, I didn't know that.
From the results of this poll so far, I'm seeing the large majority of people seem to understand humour fine or have minimal problems. Maybe it's mostly an autistic problem of mine then. Anyways though it's good for me to know either way and I appreciate everyone's input.
Last edited by batgirl; 23-02-2008 at 06:31 AM.
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23-02-2008, 07:20 AM
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Hey Evie - it was Spock.
I can't remember exactly now the details around this, which is frustrating.... sorry about that!! | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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