What makes you laugh today? What made you laugh in the past? Surely some stay the same, but what has changed? Also just for clarification, I don’t count childhood only because we all had a childish sense of humor and no 4 year old would understand sketch comedy or stuff that goes over their head. I used to really like Family Guy, Archer and stuff like that. Over time I feel like I got over the “Airplane” style of comedy in which every 3 seconds, there’s a joke. I started to get more into shows that were more quality over quantity in terms of jokes. I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and Portlandia and stuff like that. I feel like Tim&Eric, Portlandia Eric Andre and Dr. Steve Brule made my sense of humor so weird lmao. I adore weird characters that seem to live in their own World separate from our own. Just the way they interact with ordinary people and to see how oddly a person can respond to normal situations cracks me up. Also shoutout to “Off The Air” on Adult Swim. I also really love sketch comedies like Wkuk, Chappelle show and Key and Peele, also Monty Python on occasion. What do y’all like? Anything recommendations that transformed your sense of humor?
I’ve always wondered if I’m neurodivergent or not. I got diagnosed with some form of autism as a kid but my parents ignored it because it was in a period where tons of kids where getting autism labeled on them left and right. But I have great struggles with many ordinary things. Not like ‘oh it’s a bit hard and boring but if I do it I can manage’ but like, serious issues. Planning, for example, is non-existent in my life. I have extreme hedonistic tendencies that need to be controlled. People have a hard time operating at my level and vice versa (not in the genius way, just different wavelengths).
My brother did get diagnosed with pretty severe ADD and he had therapy for it his entire pre-adult life. I’ve always wondered what would have become of me if my parents accepted the diagnosis and if I got better guidance because of it. I had a very rough time between 13 and 22 and I think some form of guidance would’ve made things better. My brother got all that and managed to get into a pretty decent job eventually through hours and hours of guidance, therapy and help. Basically all the attention went to him and I never got any, a big reason for that being that I also happen to be somewhat smart with a potential to do good in school. But my brother deserves it though. If me not getting the help I needed means he got what he needed, then that’s fine. I wouldn’t want to change it.
Here I am, the person I am now. And I probably couldn’t be that person if it weren’t for the things that happened. But still.