Comedy

One of the stereotypes of autism is that anyone one with it is that anyone with it is overly literal and lacks a sense of humour. Of course this is not true, as this man shows:

See that? How I embedded that video? It makes you feel like you're reading a real blog, instead of this 2 bit amateur production.Anyway, this shows that autistics can be funny. In fact people have even described me as funny. In a recent interview with someone I know I got the response "Quite often, yes." in response to the question "would you describe me as funny?". She went on to describe me as "funny haha and funny weird", which was nice of her. My style of humour is often described as being very dry with a heavy use of sarcasm (another thing autistics aren't supposed to understand). What's interesting about my humour though is why I use it, or at least why I developed it. It was not to make friends, it was actually the opposite. I developed it as a defence mechanism to avoid getting to close to anyone, as if I were to ever get into a serious discussion it was easier to avoid the issue with a flippant comment than actually have to discuss my feelings.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting about this is that lately I've seriously been thinking about going into amateur stand-up, which before I'd always ruled out as it's one of the hardest things to do in front of a live audience. But then I watched a non-famous stand-up and realised that they're not actually that funny and I too could be not that funny.