autism: too serious or not enough

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I don't know with this really. I'm serious, yet silly. I don't like giggling teenage girls, yet I don't like miserable people who never laughs at humour. Perhaps I could consider myself as in between.

My NT cousin is 19, and I never know whether she's serious or not. She's quite immature for 19, and she messes around a lot with her friends, and giggles stupidly. Yet she tried a job at a nursery and found she was too serious for playing and speaking to the children there.

I think it's based on a combination of personality and experience that determines this for each AS person. I know well enough about myself and my flaws to know how severe or mild my symptoms can get. I take my AS very seriously mostly because the rest of the world around me does not. They treat it (as well as myself) like a joke. If I don't take it seriously, who else is going to? Plus seriousness is in my nature. I was born without the ability to smile or find the humor in anything. I can't help this but at the same time it's probably a good thing that I have the right attitude toward things.