• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sometimes I pretend to take sarcasm or joke statements seriously because I don’t know how to react to it otherwise.

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      7 months ago

      Me too. Also I’ll often do the opposite where I make a joke but with no tone change to indicate it as such. People will either get mad at me for being wrong or else they will praise my brilliant deadpan humour.

      • KammicRelief@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        haha same! Half the time I’m a comedic genius, and the other half, I look like an idiot. (ok, maybe it’s 60/40. or 5/95.)

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        yooooooo! Before I found out I’m autistic, I asked a friend if I had any toxic traits/patterns/behaviors. He said that the only thing he could think of was that quite often, people can’t tell that I’m joking. According to him, people have to get to know me for a while until they recognize my humor. If they didn’t know me, then I would come off like a complete jerk. This is probably why people would call me an “asshole” so often at parties.