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Have you heard the claim that autistic people don't understand jokes and what do you think about it?
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Considering that humor is a very subjective thing in the first place, I think the claim is hogwash.
Some autistics don’t understand some jokes, just like some allistics don’t understand some jokes. Because to those people, those jokes might not even be funny in the first place, and it’s hard to understand the point of something one doesn’t find funny. But like with so many other things, for us, it’s a stereotype and it’s been pathologized all to hell.
It’s true that in some ways we have slight disadvantages. Some of us struggle to understand sarcasm or other tones of voice, and if the person telling the joke doesn’t have very good delivery in the first place, it might make it even harder to get the joke (I have this problem with every single joke my brother-in-law tries to tell). But it’s important to keep in mind that allistics can and do have the exact same preferences and problems. If it’s not a stereotype for them, it certainly shouldn’t be for us.
Apparently, all autistic people are either awkward geniuses like Sheldon from the Big Bang theory or they're unfunctonal and can't use the bathroom on their own. Fucking stereotypes are starting to get on my nerves. I hate people sometimes :|
It’s almost like those blue lights aren’t doing anything to actually raise people’s awareness of autism and what it is…Gosh, I wonder where that particular campaign could possibly be going wrong…
(Pardon my sarcasm. I find sometimes the only appropriate response to these ridiculous stereotypes is a hefty dose of acerbic sardonicism.)
![[“Autistics are the nicest people you’ll ever meet because they don’t know how to hate people.”
Yes, because we’re actually made out of magical hate-proof fairy dust instead of water, electricity and skin cells like everyone else.]
Could we just…stop with this kind of nonsense, please? Autistic people are people. Like any other people, we can (and do) learn hate, and we learn all kinds of hate. Okay? It really is just that simple. Occam’s Razor: Autistic people are people and people can hate so autistic people can hate.
There we go. We can stop this silliness now.](http://41.media.tumblr.com/fa1030bbbe0d8f8ba4dbe100b64ab32f/tumblr_ml5gouBZA31rfhms3o1_400.jpg)
[“Autistics are the nicest people you’ll ever meet because they don’t know how to hate people.”
Yes, because we’re actually made out of magical hate-proof fairy dust instead of water, electricity and skin cells like everyone else.]
Could we just…stop with this kind of nonsense, please? Autistic people are people. Like any other people, we can (and do) learn hate, and we learn all kinds of hate. Okay? It really is just that simple. Occam’s Razor: Autistic people are people and people can hate so autistic people can hate.
There we go. We can stop this silliness now.
Re: autistic characters, I prefer them when the writers didn't write them as autistic, because usually characters written to be autistic are very stereotypical (and also mostly male characters).
![[“You aren’t obsessed with a single interest? You can’t be autistic!”
Even Simon Baron-Cohen thinks you’re ridiculous.]
‘Nuff said.](http://40.media.tumblr.com/35f86cf020b735ab9de2d2c3723b65ce/tumblr_mjq8qnJA0q1rfhms3o1_400.jpg)
[“You aren’t obsessed with a single interest? You can’t be autistic!”
Even Simon Baron-Cohen thinks you’re ridiculous.]
‘Nuff said.
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