Inappropriate Laughing, anyone else with this problem?

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Whenever I'm in a public place where there are signs that say "NO SKATEBOARDING. NO BICYCLING. NO SKATING." and i see some kid ( who is usually with his sh***y parent) rolling around on those sneakers with the hidden skate wheels in them... I admit I laugh my ass off when they fall down. If I can't ride my bike in the mall, why should these kids be rolling around on sneaker skates? And why do their parents disregard what is the law for everybody else in the place ( except, apparently, for their kid)? I'll admit I've laughed loud enough for people to hear me and give me a look.
But to be fair, even regular folks enjoy seeing the misfortunate injuries of others. Why else would there be so many shows on TV dedicated to skaters landing on their heads or skydivers falling with no parachutes?

You have no idea how much trouble I'd always get in due to inappropriate laughter during boot camp!

I had this happen recently, but I'm too ashamed to say what it was about. Someone said something totally unfunny, and I laughed at an absurdity that I noticed in the manner of the unfunny thing. Of course, a second later I realized that it looked like I was laughing at the unfunny thing itself, which would be very insensitive. I got the look and I felt very mean and stupid. Explaining didn't help.

I have also had a problem with this It can be very embarrassing.

Cool so I guess that can stay with you for life then, Damo is 5

There's always a thing or two in the day that most people just chuckle at yet for some reason it's the funniest thing in the world to me, and I laugh about it for a really long time and everyone looks at me super weird like "Okay it wasn't that funny!! !!" But it was!

I've dun that too. But what's weird is there's times where I don't laugh at all and ppl ask me if I'm OK.

I laugh at facial expressions, especially anger; I cannot contain my laughter. I also laugh at morbid events and accidents, it makes me sound like a jerk, and I probably am, but I have no idea why I find these things funny (except the former; trouble with facial expressions and all).

O, and idioms make me laugh too.

aah, I know that problem too well.. Any random ridiculous thought or twisted connection my mind creates can make me laugh at the most inappropriate times.. I've improved my control over it in recent years, but it still happens at times.

I don't laugh out of politeness (or pity for the poor sense of humor some people have?), but instead stare at the person in question and make a comment about how totally NOT funny what they said is.. Doesn't get you many friends, that's for sure..

Why laugh at anger??? Damo does that and it ticks me off.

I have no idea, just the facial expression, and perhaps the overt emotion being displayed over such a minute event sends us to laughter.

I was suspended for a few days in high school for laughing at the headmaster when he became upset when I told him that, 'my socks are already up.' Then I laughed at the anger that then ensued.

I received detention another time when after a teacher told me to pick up rubbish that I didn't drop (I refused), and I then laughed at her when she kinda went "crazy".

Anger ticks us off as it's never needed in most situations (loud voices and emotions hurt us after all, we don't process them like normal people do).

Last edited by Danielismyname on 29 Feb 2008, 4:30 am, edited 1 time in total.

Maybe your face looks funny to him when you are cross. When my mom got cross with me, it looked like her eye balls were going to pop out! I know, it can send you through the roof. I've had too other adult aspies laugh at me when I am angry with them too. Makes one feel helpless...

I find anger funny because what most people regard as angry seems just petty to me. They don't know REAL anger like I do.

Wow thank you! I never looked it that way before.

Now what about laughing at me when I am hurt????????
Why laugh when someone else is in pain??

Sometimes I want to laugh when people are angry at me and it is not a serious event, just something silly, and I end up feeling like a naughty child, and I have to put on a serious face for them.

Yeah I have the inappropriate laughter thing. I wonder if it is just the way my circuitry is because it seems to be a mechanised response to certain things. I try not to beat myself up about it because I didnt choose it to be that way. But it disturbs me. I dont think it means I lack compassion though.

An NT may have a more appropriate mind, but it is just the genetic lottery that gave them the appropriateness, they didnt earn it by being a better person than me.

That's probably the only way he sees such; a distorted perspective of emotions and sensory inputs can manifest in a number of ways; what's to say that laughing doesn't equate to sad in another's mind, a mind that's totally different to that which is normal?

Who'd think that wearing certain clothes could be agony? The same for emotions, feelings. He'll change as he grows as he realizes the "correct" way to respond.

I feel like laughing when people are hurt, but I know it's inappropriate; if it's due to their own error, I usually cannot contain it however.