I'd probably die if I had to explain why you should soak your logs in wood.

Jul 6, 2022 2:39 AM

So, my therapist asked me the most uncomfortable question to date.
More unnerving than "Why don't you have a girlfriend?"
More disquieting than "Do you love yourself?"
Even worse than "What do you do for fun?"

"What makes you laugh?"

And I'm supposed to jot down examples to share.

Got off to an uncomfortable start last session, trying to explain the absurd, ironic, punny, random, quickly out of vogue, and often off-colour humour-roulette I've been conditioned to find funny after spending my early teens through early adulthood consuming (admittedly far too much of) this stuff.

How do I explain two decades of internet culture?
How do I explain a sense of humour that's based on references to references to references to approximate knowledge of many things? Inside jokes all the way down.
It's not like my sense of humour is sick or anything, just... I can't even think of how to express it to someone who's not in the know without cringing into oblivion.

Should I just say I like funny cat videos? Funny edits of movie clips? Comics?
How much am I overthinking this?
And no, Paige won't be mentioned.

So you're saying you're single and and have 20 years of Internet humor at the ready for references?

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Simple answer, absurdities make you laugh, absurd situations, absurd imagery, just silly shit.

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Later on when thinking about Paige

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I only use imgur like really, so I totally don't mix real life with the internet, don't need to help myself be awkward

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Unless you know, you don't know I guess? Hah! That's terrible ? they probably had some contact with imgur lotsa ppl do.

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I... ~2 years ago I learned that I have a mild degree of autism, learned a week ago that autism gives an automatic disability salary in my

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country. However, I earned above the maximum disability and... disability governmental payment is calculated from an average of the top 3

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years within the past 5 years. I have 3 months to get the disability payment now. That said, the government also paid $1,500 to get me

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fully diagnosed, it just happens to be that I connected the dots now, they might be trying to sell me short for the rest of my life...

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