Aspies For Freedom

I'm curious whether there is a link between laughter and aspieness/autism. How do you laugh (frequency, volume, type of laughter)? Do Aspies laugh less than NTs?

Frequency: For me the frequency of smiling and laughing is rather low. By the way, for me that's not related to (un)happiness, but I had people say to me when I felt perfectly well: "smile".
Volume: I never laugh loudly, more smiling than laughing with sound.
Type of laughter: sometimes a relaxed smile but at work mostly a more nervous type of smile, not with the whole face.

High-pitched cackle. Wife says it's weird.

How I laugh?

I can't tell exactly how I laugh, because I rarely manage to stop and listen when I laugh, but I can tell some reactions.

Often I will begin to laugh of something that don't make others laugh under a lesson, still they sometimes begin to laugh, and someone has given me a clue to that it is infact MY laughter they're laughing of... that's abit embarrassing.

Especially when I begin to laugh when in another class and then someone points at me and tell others to look at my apparently spectacular phenomenon, that one incident I managed to stop my laughter immediatly so that the guy got himself embarrassed for not pointing at anything but a *shmiling* someone.

I have really loud laughter that seems to go higher and higher in pitch over time. Like this:

HAHAHAHAHA (normal pitch)

HAHAHAHAHA (higher pitch)

HAHAHAHAHA (very high pitch)

AHAHAHAHAHA (like a girl)

That just made me remember something.

Is it normal when you're a kid for your older brother to instruct you explicitly in how to laugh properly?

I'm the older sister.  I didn't tell my brothers how to laugh, but I told my dad he cackled like an old witch.

I think I laugh more than average people... If something is really funny to me, it's not uncommon for me to laugh for 20 minutes or more nonstop, and then randomly start laughing about it again later. It's actually gotten me in trouble at school - I would get kicked out of class or sent to the office because I couldn't stop laughing, even though it's not something I have much control over. I'm sort of glad I laugh so much, though; I'd rather have that than barely laughing at all.

What I remember was that everyone was laughing, and I thought I was joining in.  (I think I was 7 or 8 at the time, that would've made my brother 16 or 17.)

And my brother told me, "That's not actually laughing, Mandy."

Then he told me that to laugh you:

1.  Don't try to make noise while inhaling.
2.  Do a lot of it under your breath (and he demonstrated).
3.  Do only a bit of it out loud (he also demonstrated).

And then he demonstrated what laughing actually sounds like and got me to imitate it until I got it right.

In my family the oldest (my other brother) and the youngest (me) are autistic, middle one isn't.  And none of us match the descriptions of personality traits by birth order that someone just linked to.

Oldest of three here.

I'm the middle of five.
I've been told that I laugh too loud.  I think I laugh rather a lot, but often just to myself.

I giggle at things that are sorta funny and then when things are really funny i do this silent laugh where I gasp for air and my face turns really red.

My laugh varies, but most of the time it's similar to Boycie's (only Fools And Horses)

I chuckle more than laugh.

Mine is either a very cynical chuckle, or my friends say with I just find something funny rather than darkly ironic, that I laugh like a serial killer

I have a pretty dry and dark sense of humor most of the time.

Apparently, when I have my hair short and my shades on, I look like a serial killer as well...

Look out cornflakes here I come mothafuckas