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View Poll Results: Do You Have Trouble Understanding Humour?
Yes, I am usually the last person to get a joke. 4 11.43%
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%
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Old 23-02-2008, 07:49 AM
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Hi Batgirl,

As a high school teacher who often deals with students' autism needs, I find that what you have said relates to almost every one of my autistic kids. Granted I'm no doctor, but I do know that thinking literally and not "getting" common humor is VERY common among people with autism. Don't worry, though, you're not missing much...most of the time peoples' jokes aren't even that funny!

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Thanks Nic, I'm glad someone here understands me! I feel so odd sometimes.
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Lots of people understand you Evie. No worries there please.

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I don't have much trouble getting other people's humor, except for perhaps puns. I just don't see them as funny. My problem is that I see humor in almost everything else and most other people do not. I have a very dry sense of humor and most people look at me like I have three heads at quite a few of my jokes. I just say less of them now and have a laugh to myself or I call my sister..who always gets my jokes.

I am a nanny, with most of my experience caring for special needs children. One boy was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was his nanny. Finding what would make him laugh was quite a challenge for me, but was so very rewarding when I succeeded. I had the advantage of knowing him very well since I cared for he and his brother for 3 years.
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