"Aspies do not have a sense of humor"

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I'm funny enough to make my friend lose air, nearly killing him, if not death is achieved then it's often crying from laughter or spitting up whatever is in the persons mouth, and I time it well.

One thing I hear often is "Dude, not when I'm drinking!!"

...guess I'm a funny dude.

I make people laugh all the time, but not in the usual manner, my face and voice are always "non expressive", I say things in a cold robotic manner, but it comes out very blunt and very sick. I have a very very sick sense of humour. Fortunately I've met people with similar sense of humour.

When I was younger I barely spoke but I would sometimes say one comment that got my brother and sisters all on the floor laughing.
I have a strange and random sense of humor, that probably comes from the years of watching Monty Python's Flying Circus.

My humor tends to be connected to the odd (maybe autistic) set of experiences I had growing up.

My social faults, and my skewed view of the world tends to color the wording of my jokes.

I tend to tell jokes to the demographic groups I think will listen.

And, as just happened, I told a bad joke on Myspace to a NT friend (about car airbags) and the NT thought I was threatening him.

Joking is a dangerous thing, especially for an Aspie.

I am an Aspie and I have a sense of humor however my son who falls somewhere between AS and high functioning Autism didn't. When he was about 5 I realised that he never laughed. Everything was serious to him. He had a very concrete sense of right and wrong and most humor is about people getting things wrong so he just thought it was stupid and silly not funny.

I have spent many years teaching him humor. I started him with physical humor like the Three Stooges. We would watch videos and discuss why things were funny. We have covered Abbot and Costello, Lucille Ball, The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, The Goodies, The Young Ones, The Goon Show etc and I can say that now at the age of 14 he has a great sense of humor. It's a dry, wry sense of humor and many of his peers are not sophisticated enough to appreciate it but he can crack me up every time.

I'm so glad I spent the time teaching him. Life would unbearable without a good laugh.

I only seem to be funny if it's involves being mean to someone.

the lack of humour part is an outdated way to judge severity on the spectrum,it just goes to show how unique ASD is,many do not even understand the humours of autists as it commonly is not mainstream, and either assume one or the other [have got one,or have not].

am have severe autism and have got own humour [can find any object funny,and have done things such as use a brown oil based pastel crayon to draw around the back of the toilet seat so that one of the staff would get blamed for pooing over the edge],am live with a profoundly autistic lady who has her own humour [does stuff similar to self],have also lived with people diagnosed severe aspergers in previous residential homes,and unlike what that article says-every one of them had their own humour.

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Of course we have a sense of humour. It's just too advanced for NTs to understand.

Maybe the idea comes from the fact that some aspies have a difficulty understanding idioms, sarcasm or irony. But that's definitely not the same as not having a sense of humour.

Often, as a kid, I would think that my (NT) sisters weren't funny when they made fun of me, and when I got mad, they told me that it was just for fun.
Strangely, when they didn't understand something I said for fun, it was suddenly the absolute truth that it couldn't be understood as funny. Hmm...

I have to admit that, as a kid, I couldn't understand why it was funny when a person fell into the water (in films or so). Why did people laugh at that? It must not be very nice to get wet all over like that, I thought. (shouldn't they know with all their empathy, one could ask?) But they explained that one didn't laugh at the person, but at the situation.

I didn't have any personal sense of humour - by which I'm meaning the ability to make a joke - until about thirteen or fourteen, when I deliberately set out to learn, because my fine peers were telling me (repeatedly) I had no sense of humour. I do alright these days.

i am not considered by people i know to be capable of "humor".

i am usually dead pan in expression and effect until something trips my "giggle trigger", and then i become "chuckly", and people look away in embarrassment because it seems so out of the character they expected of me (stony faced resolution).

so i guess that i have no ability to share or give humor to others, but i do have ideas that i find personally hilarious.
no one sees why i laugh, and they think it is some neural overload if they know of my autism. if they do not know, they think i am crazy anyway.

last week when i was waiting in a queue to go through a car wash, there were 2 people in front of me and i listened to the radio. i disliked the radio and became impatient.
the person in the car in front of me constantly looked at me through his rear view mirror, and he saw my growing expression of impatience.

when it was his turn to enter the automatic car wash, i imagined smashing the front of my car against the rear of his, and pushing him out of the car wash and taking his place as the machine started it's cycle.

this thought made me rupture into a shriek of laughter, and quite a number of people turned around from nearby (as i had my windows opened). the person in the car in front of me was bewildered because he had been previously looking at me through his rear vision mirror, and he had seen me to be rather cranky and impatient.

so i was the only one who was finding anything funny, and i also found that fact funny.
i could not stop laughing because i kept re-imagining the scenario of ramming him out of his spot and taking his place in the car wash.

but i think that NT humor is more complex, because even when i try to explain why i laugh ,they do not see the funny side.

my humor is infantile, and serious well adjusted adults can not see anything funny in my "humerous descriptions".

but i can likewise not see anything funny in their reasons for laughing.

what a tangled old web.

I have a sense of humour, it's quite good if I do say so myself and I make my friends laugh.
One of my AS-er friends has an amazing sense of humour, very sick and twisted and quite insane but he is hilarious.

my sense of humour is great unless I'm talking to someone IDK, then I go into "100% robot, 0% personality" mode and I can't joke

I think the reason that people have said that aspies have no sense of humour is because if an aspie is around someone while they're watching something humours they normally start to feel uncomfortable and nervous and don’t lath or smile, and get misread by the person who they're sitting next to. I find things funny quite allot its just if I'm next to someone I don’t know I don’t tend to show it.