Not finding things funny

[Keith]

It seems like I often don't find whatever my parents laugh at all that funny. It might be because I'm younger, or that they have more things to joke about than I do and I don't understand what they're talking about. It's just that they laugh at many things and either I just don't laugh at all or find what they're laughing not all that funny, or sometimes I actually instinctively try to restrain myself from laughing.

 

[icesyckel]

I am the opposite. I find things funny all the time - sometimes when it isn't appropriate. Especially so, in fact.

 

[The Penguin]

I tend to have this issue with most people I interact with in my life.

 

[DogwoodTree]

I laugh at things that are funny to me...sometimes I laugh to try to fit in. But most of the things other people find funny aren't funny to me at all.

Most "humor", imo, is more about making other people feel badly about themselves so that the person making the joke can feel better about themselves, or vice versa. But then, I grew up in a home where put-downs were common, shaming people was entertainment, and every statement ever made by anyone for any reason had a sexual innuendo.

 

[Zhuyue Zhao]

I am the opposite. I find things funny all the time - sometimes when it isn't appropriate. Especially so, in fact.[/QUOTE same

 

[AsheSkyler]

Not me, I've got a well developed funny bone. Except for jokes about harming or killing babies, I don't think they're funny.
I used to consider trying to get into stand-up comedy, but there's that anxiety attack thing with having so many people looking at me at once. I just make my family and friends laugh now.

 

[Keith]

It's not that everything they talk about isn't funny, it's just that whenever they laugh it seems like I either don't or have to restrain myself.

 

[Peace]

I find so few things funny these days, it is shockingly rare when I do laugh.