laughing/giggling inappropriately.

[Guest guest]

Once when my I was 16ish and my brother was 13, we were climbing a steep

embankment that had a drop-off cliff on the side of it. My brother fell down

the cliff quite a ways, scraping himself along the stone the entire way. If he

hadn't managed to catch his footing on a jutting rock, he would have fallen to

his death on the busy highway below. And where was I, his responsible big

sister? Sitting at the top laughing hysterically. I was completely useless.

Thankfully, he survived with only a full-body raspberry, and forgave me my

hysteria.

We have not had this issue yet with Katy. She seems to laugh at appropriate

times so far. FYI, we got an official ASD diagnosis for Katy last week. Until

then, it had just been speculation. Doesn't change much.

Csvillars@... wrote:

In a message dated 10/25/2006 12:42:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

mfroof@... writes:

That doesn't bother me.

....what does make me upset is when he laughs at me or other people who are

hurt.

I have to admit there have been several times I have broke out laughing when

someone has fallen etc. I remember one time back in the days when I was

young and innocent(?), my boyfriend at the time fell down the steps and even

though I was trying to help him up I was laughing so hard at the same time and

in-between laughing I was trying to ask if he was alright which made us both

laugh even more. I guess all I am saying is that even us so called " typical "

people laugh at the oddest times why is it so much different for our kids.

Some people laugh when they are nervous and yes even at funerals not because

they are trying to be hurtful but it's their way of protecting themselves. I

guess I tend to ask first, is this something we as supposedly typical people

have ever done and if so then why is it so different for our kids to be

doing it. Of course whether it's our special needs kids or our typical kids

doing it we always strive to teach them when is appropriate and when it isn't

appropriate to laugh in public. I can't tell you how many situations I or o

thers have laughed when we would deem it inappropriate. I have also broken down

crying at what some might deem inappropriate times for no apparent reason so

again I guess I question how much we expect our kids to be so much more

controlled than we ourselves are sometimes. JMHO, again. :-)

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

[Guest guest]

If so many thousands of " normal " people did not laugh " inappropriately " there

would have been no Three Stooges or any form of slapstick comedy or any

cartoons. I have never found slapstick stuff very humorous (I have a darker side

hehe) but it just cracks my hubby right up and come to think of it one of

's favorite videos is a pie in the face fight; she also listens to the

audio of it and laughs hilariously. Sometimes she rewinds this one obssessively

for so long and laughs so hard she ends up wetting her pants, not able to stop

long enough to get to the potty. I don't think the stuff she finds funny is

particularly comical myself but I just break up laughing watching her laugh. I'm

glad you guys brought up this topic- I was beginning to forget how much she

actually does laugh since she's been so ornery and aggressive on these iron

supplements for so long.

She fixates on certain phrases in the videos too, or even single words she can

rewind over and over.... " about face " comes to mind and she'll get laughing so

hard she has juice coming out of her nose and she's grabbing at her crotch to

keep from peeing and she also keeps making eye contact with me to try and share

the joke, to make sure I'm enjoying the humor. This is a really good thing I

think. She's so cute!!!

Sherry