Do any of you add'ers feel like your sense-of-humor is quite different from the norm? I hear creativity mentioned a lot in regards to AD(H)D. Something I hear from co-workers constantly is, "where do you come up with this stuff?" I must hear that, at least, 10 times a month. My humor seems to be appreciated or scorned upon, no middle ground.

Questions that have gotten me unacceptable reactions are:

I once asked my dental hygenist if she ever had an I-tooth wink at her. She seemed more frightened than amused, confused nonetheless.

I asked the guy who sold me my stereo if I could return my speakers if they were mutes. He just seemed annoyed.

I asked my dairy Manager what the deal was with buttermilk, as I had never witnessed lactating butter before. He was perplexed.

I was watching my floral Manager inflate balloons when I felt compelled to ask her if inflating ones hinder with helium would create shrilling farts. She laughed, but then I asked her how she kept the helium tank from floating away. I got that, what do I make of this look.

When my cat got his shots I asked the vet if he had any pets get rabies shots for frost-bite. He was bemused at best.

My guidance counselor and myself were going through the obligatory one-on-one career counseling in highschool. He was running down the pre-fab list of options, and mentioned being a Naval Officer. I said "Naval Officer, are you nuts? I don't wanna dress like a belly dancer!" He realized I was beyond help.

Of course, when these jokes come to mind they are immediately blurted out. No process of examining the relevance or acceptability of what I am saying.
So, is it just me?

Regards to all,
Larry

Morbid Parable I must have the same sense of humor as you do.
Because I found all your examples really funny! :D
I tooth wink at you LOL now that's funny stuff.

Whenever I make jokes like that it takes people a minute to get the joke.
Or they just seem really thrown off by what I said.
Like they took me seriously.
Then I have to say it was a joke.
Geez nothing worse then watching a perfectly good joke die on the floor.

Ha Ha ,Stori! I always deliver my jokes deadpan, also. I don't giggle as that would ruin the joke. Looking into the persons eyes and seeing their mind do a 180 degree turn is the fun of it all.

Could you imagine if ones mind literally did a 180 degree turn? They would have a brainstem hanging out of their nose and eyes in the back of their head. Creepy!:eek:

LOOOOOL
And I tooth wink at you. AHAHA.
Ok, I guarantee you are not alone with that sense of humor. Mine is out of this world...I don't think anyone I know has anything quite like it. My mother calls me her "interseting' child.
I have that issue of blurting out things at work too so I just tell myself to shut up and not talk and that way if im not saying anything at all I cant say anything stupid...doesnt tend to work that much but it helps on occasion.

Hahah I love that look on peoples faces when theyre trying to decipher what you just said..ahaha I know it all too well.

Satire helps me :

"Yes I know you have debilitating classroom anxiety and feel you're losing it. But you see, I was absent from my graduate seminar in psychopatholgy the day that was discussed. I was investigating the intricacies of the electric paddle!"--Superintendent of Schools when i was in High School.

Best Regards.
DBR

:D OMG, I say stuff like that all the time. Weird I never thought of this as part of my ADD. Mostly I checked it off to having a weird Dad with a strange humor I picked up over the years... :D He's Canadian, so we try to be forgiving...hehe ;)

My friend has a screaming sense of humour, can keep me in stitches for as long as HE wants!!

My humor can come out of my hyperactivity and doing stupid stuff, funny acts, wisecracks, obnoxiousness, sarcasm, and original witticisms that i make up that have people laughing. Ive had a strange sense of humor to more normal people and told i was strange, or they just dont get it, and equally people have gotten it in the norms as well. And some people love it and dont want me to leave ever and i keep people going. To some people, im hot, and to some people, im totally not. and to some people, they raise an eyebrow and give me this questionable look or do that, "Okkkkk, well then....." Ive had mixed reactions in the humor scene.

ive been ostracized socially in school and other places for my weirdness and strangeness coming from what i thought was supposed to be humor and making people laugh.

I think for me being witty has been kind of a lifesaver because I couldn't really keep up in the classroom so I would just try to make everyone laugh. Instead of reading along in my history book, I was tapping the kid next to me and making silly faces.

When people first meet me though they think I am just really propper (me just wanting to appear like a normal adult), then they really get to know me and can't believe I am married with kids (the real me). I've worked with teens in youth ministry and I think I end up getting crazier than most of them. About a year ago I actually had a college student getting mad at me because he wanted to go to sleep and I kept pegging him with marshmallows. Just silly stuff I guess. I'm not much of a joke teller though.