Sarcasm
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Joined: 22 Apr 2012
Age: 31
Gender: Female
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Location: Starship Voyager, somewhere in the Delta quadrant
I'm pretty good at using sarcasm; it's my main form of humour. I'll usually catch it 90% of the time when others use it, though every so often something will fly right over my head and I'll have to ask if they were being serious.
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"Survival is insufficient" - Seven of Nine
Diagnosed with ASD level 1 on the 10th of April, 2014
Rediagnosed with ASD level 2 on the 4th of May, 2019
Thanks to Olympiadis for my fantastic avatar!
it depends which side of me is dominant at the moment, normal me and aspie me i get maybe 20% of sarcasm and i don't really know how to use it, strangely when i switch to my socio/psycho self i totally get it and able to use it. that part of myself i actually can read people really well and interact at a level equal to or slightly better than the average person, i just lack charm that most psychos have.
i don't even know where or how I split into so many parts, and how is it possible that when i'm on version of myself I understand it and use it, but in another i'm without the ability to recognize it or use it.
I still don´t get every sarcastic comment but am getting better.
I use sarcasm myself but sometimes it is misunderstood. That also happens the other way around: I was not sarcastic but others thought so.
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English is not my native language. So it is possible that there are mistakes in my posts. Please correct me, I´m still learning.
example: (when i was senior programmer at infohouse interviewing a girl for a job)
me: so just fill in your name and the rest of the details and i will be back in a moment.
her:ok.
me: (when i came back and looked at her sheet) sorry but i think you spelled your first name wrong. it should be "deborah" and not "debra"
her: are you serious?! i know what my name is!
me: i understand that, but you spelled it incorrectly.
her: are you mad?!?
me: no but i am busy so i will bid you farewell and you will be contacted within 3 days as to whether your application invites a further interview
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i would not do that kind of thing now because i have a better understanding that people are real.
This could be trouble some with people like me, I would have taken you up on your invitation to leave and walked straight to the EDD and filed a sex discrimination suit and then to an attorneys office. #serious #notsarcasm #feminism
I read sarcasm less than 10% of the time, everyone who actually knows me has learned to tag - friends of friends very often blow it and arguments ensue - any time I do it I tag
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?The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.? - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
example: (when i was senior programmer at infohouse interviewing a girl for a job)
me: so just fill in your name and the rest of the details and i will be back in a moment.
her:ok.
me: (when i came back and looked at her sheet) sorry but i think you spelled your first name wrong. it should be "deborah" and not "debra"
her: are you serious?! i know what my name is!
me: i understand that, but you spelled it incorrectly.
her: are you mad?!?
me: no but i am busy so i will bid you farewell and you will be contacted within 3 days as to whether your application invites a further interview
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i would not do that kind of thing now because i have a better understanding that people are real.
This could be trouble some with people like me, I would have taken you up on your invitation to leave and walked straight to the EDD and filed a sex discrimination suit and then to an attorneys office. #serious #notsarcasm #feminism
I read sarcasm less than 10% of the time, everyone who actually knows me has learned to tag - friends of friends very often blow it and arguments ensue - any time I do it I tag
there was no verdict to argue over. i made no verdict. it was not sexist. i just did not like her because she did not like me. i did not dislike her because she was a girl.
i treated her like a specimen that i tested various ideas on, but none of them were sexual, and all of them were when i was in my 20's and i am now in my 40's and i look with empty eyes on what i did when i was young.
look i know you are not inclined toward males and you are unlikely to identify with my mindset, so i will just say that no-one ever experienced a career wide injury caused by me.
bye.