blue-roses
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I was bored today so I started reading yet another definition of SA on some website; the article was actually written by the psychologist I'm seeing atm. One of the symptoms mentioned was "laughing too much". This was the first time I'd ever seen it mentioned anywhere, and yet it's one of my worst symptoms (and it was worse at school). Just wondering if anyone else has this problem too.
At school I would get so nervous that the tiniest thing, even if it wasn't that funny, would set me off. When we had to read aloud in class (regardless of whether I was reading or not), I'd be on the lookout for words that might possibly be funny. I don't normally find words like "gay" (as in happy), "bosom"...or even "ball" funny (see, I'm not an eleven-year-old boy), but these suddenly became hilarious when the whole class was quiet and I felt conspicuous. I would get tears welling in my eyes trying to stop myself from just letting out a huge snort of laughter and often I had to stab myself with a pen or completely tune out to stop it.
It's still a problem in certain situations at uni; in my linguistics tutorial (it's the one class where I have no-one to talk to), the tutor is a really eccentric but sweet guy that's always making self-deprecating jokes. His English isn't great, so most of his jokes are about that; and while the rest of the class chuckles a bit, once I start, I can't stop...I sit there for five minutes grinning like the Cheshire cat, all the while going redder and redder because I know I shouldn't still be smiling... I hope to God that he doesn't think I'm laughing at his English and being mean.
The other day in my human biosciences prac, we had to nominate volunteers from each team to do some stepping so we could monitor their heart rate as the exercise intensity increased. At first, everyone laughed because the four volunteers were all stepping in synch and it looked like they were marching in the army or something. Once again, I couldn't stop grinning, and then, about five minutes after everyone else had stopped laughing, I suddenly let out this "mmmmmffffffffffhhhhhhhhhhhehhhhhhheheheheh..." noise and everyone in my group looked at me like I was insane. I wanted to die; I pretended I'd seen something funny on the other side of the room...not sure it was very convincing.
Anyway, those are some of my (long as usual) examples...anyone else suffer from this?
At school I would get so nervous that the tiniest thing, even if it wasn't that funny, would set me off. When we had to read aloud in class (regardless of whether I was reading or not), I'd be on the lookout for words that might possibly be funny. I don't normally find words like "gay" (as in happy), "bosom"...or even "ball" funny (see, I'm not an eleven-year-old boy), but these suddenly became hilarious when the whole class was quiet and I felt conspicuous. I would get tears welling in my eyes trying to stop myself from just letting out a huge snort of laughter and often I had to stab myself with a pen or completely tune out to stop it.
It's still a problem in certain situations at uni; in my linguistics tutorial (it's the one class where I have no-one to talk to), the tutor is a really eccentric but sweet guy that's always making self-deprecating jokes. His English isn't great, so most of his jokes are about that; and while the rest of the class chuckles a bit, once I start, I can't stop...I sit there for five minutes grinning like the Cheshire cat, all the while going redder and redder because I know I shouldn't still be smiling... I hope to God that he doesn't think I'm laughing at his English and being mean.
The other day in my human biosciences prac, we had to nominate volunteers from each team to do some stepping so we could monitor their heart rate as the exercise intensity increased. At first, everyone laughed because the four volunteers were all stepping in synch and it looked like they were marching in the army or something. Once again, I couldn't stop grinning, and then, about five minutes after everyone else had stopped laughing, I suddenly let out this "mmmmmffffffffffhhhhhhhhhhhehhhhhhheheheheh..." noise and everyone in my group looked at me like I was insane. I wanted to die; I pretended I'd seen something funny on the other side of the room...not sure it was very convincing.
Anyway, those are some of my (long as usual) examples...anyone else suffer from this?