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TAFKASH
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08 Mar 2005, 6:46 pm

I don't want to blow my own trumpet (well, I'm not as young and supple as I used to be, you know), but I consider myself a master of the use of sarcasm - it basically fits my particularly bitter and twisted personality down to the ground. As for receiving it, I generally always assume that people who say anything pleasant to me are being sarcastic, just to be on the safe side (which they usually are), which sometimes leads to problems as I generally snap their heads off for doing so, leading to much offense and huffiness, naturally...... Oh well, can't win 'em all....


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09 Mar 2005, 1:31 pm

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I can actually be rather sarcastic myself, I understand sarcasm, my problem is identifying it when other people are using it. They often don't get it when I use it, either, though.

Exactly. I couldn't have described my own case much better. I can 'get' sarcasm quite easily, when I realize that it is, in fact, sarcasm.

Interestingly, I've noticed that some people's sarcasm I 'understand' far better than others. Some people just have a certain way of saying things sarcastically... I think, for me, it's a matter of how absurd the sarcasm is. I've noticed that most of the sarcasm I don't 'catch' is of the sort that could possibly be taken at face value without any air of absurdity.

And I, too, have been accused of being sarcastic when I had no such intent.



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08 Jun 2010, 7:58 pm

Jetson wrote:
serine wrote:
-- you have done this very well
-- you are serious ?
-- no, im making fun of you

The hard part of this exchange is figuring out if they were sarcastic originally and are now honest, or if they are originally honest and are now sarcastic.


*This* right here is so true of me, as well. I get incredible anxiety if I can't get a definitive answer from the sarcastic person.



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09 Jun 2010, 7:42 pm

i often get sarcasm. it's teasing i don't get. i always take it very seriously.


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09 Jun 2010, 8:15 pm

"Are you busy, Arthur?"

"Busy?" Arthur asked unbelievingly. "I've only got all these bulldozers to lie in front of or they'll knock my house down, but no, I'm not busy. Why do you ask?"

They didn't have sarcasm on Ford's home planet, so he often failed to notice it unless he was concentrating. "Good, we need to go down to the pub."

- approximate quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy


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09 Jun 2010, 8:38 pm

It's the darndest thing; I have a hard time deciphering sarcasm and every time I try to be sarcastic(try to play their own game), people then think I'm being serious and can't tell that I'm being sarcastic. Lose, lose.


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09 Jun 2010, 9:00 pm

I can be plenty sarcastic. I have trouble understanding it from others though.


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11 Jun 2010, 4:11 pm

My favourite form of humor!

The only thing that kept me from being pummeled so much in school was my understanding of humor. I've used lots of sarcasm when i joke with people, but one thing i've noticed is that not ever NT person "gets it" either...


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11 Jun 2010, 6:33 pm

Sarcasm, how well i knew thee..

Umm, watch lots and lots of Soaps and lots and lots of movies when i was younger to try and get a handle on these over emotional inconsistent illogical crazies that were infesting my world.

So, i learned and i learned to love sarcasm, i find its even better when i fail and they look at me with that obviously "..was that sarcasm?" look.

Ha confuse me will you world! take that! my occasionally indecipherable dead pan Aspie sarcasm!




... Or am i being sarcastic?

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11 Jun 2010, 7:16 pm

It's weird because I can be a very sarcastic person haha.
I'm good with "getting" sarcasm from people I know really well, because I grow to understand their mannerisms and learn which voice means sarcasm, etc. But oh man, it's actually embarrassing how bad I am at picking up on sarcasm from strangers...

I was just in a summer course for forensic anthropology, and almost everyone on my forensic team had this problem haha. We all would joke about it. It was literally everyone on the team, even though there were only two aspies (me and one other girl).
Every day:
Person 1: *sarcastic remark*
Person 2: No, it's actually like *long explanation*
Person 1: I was joking.
Person 2: Oh ok *sarcastic remark*
Person 1: Wait what? *long serious response*
Person 2: ...I was joking too.


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12 Jun 2010, 12:26 am

Ichinin wrote:
one thing i've noticed is that not ever NT person "gets it" either...

True. My sarcasm can at times be seen as cruel, but I think people just take it the wrong way. I've seen fights break out between people when one person took sarcastic comments the wrong way.

With me I can get sick of sarcasm. Sarcasm is just a weaker form of lying and telling myself over and over again that it's not serious can be tiring. My sarcastic comments are usually impulsive and I often think why I would even say those things. But I do it in moderation so I'm not a hypocrite.

Some sarcasm is just not funny at all. I suppose it is subjective. When I don't laugh people think I am taking it seriously but I'm just not giving in to their lameness.


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12 Jun 2010, 12:39 am

My husband and one of my two close friends use a lot of sarcasm and there are many times that I dont catch it. They are usually nice about it and try not to laugh at me. My brains first instinct is to take things literally.
I am also usually slow to get jokes and sometimes there are jokes that I never understand and even after someone explains the punch line.....its not funny!
However I do love puns and find them hilarious!

Im a dork...so what :P



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12 Jun 2010, 6:28 am

I've really never had any problems with taking things literal. In fact, I use humor, irony and sarcasm on a daily basis, and they sure are powerfull tools. Using different kinds of sarcasm and irony, you can get out of pretty much any 'social trap' without looking/feeling awkward.