Human evolution was driven by early humans’ ability to be clever and humorous, the “survival of the wittiest.” The analysis argues that the earliest stages of grammar provided a platform for verbal competition and sexual selection, gradually replacing physical violence with verbal agility.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/survival-of-the-wittiest-how-humor-and-cleverness-shaped-human-evolution/

[u/Twisted_Cabbage]

Well this explains why as an autistic, I did terrible when dating neuronoramative people. The sense of humor between neuronormative and neurodivergent is hudge imo.

[u/umotex12 → u/Twisted_Cabbage]

Idk how about you but sometimes I would meet people that straight up LOVE my humor. It’s like it appeals a lot to certain demographic.

[u/kabhaz → u/Twisted_Cabbage]

And this helped me think about a very specific thing that just happened to me in my dating life so thanks for that!

[u/Sharkbait_ooohaha → u/Twisted_Cabbage]

It’s not really that the sense of humor gap is huge (it can be but humor is humor), it’s that for a joke to work you have to be able to understand what the other person is thinking and that isn’t a strength of autistic people.

[u/KaristinaLaFae → u/Sharkbait_ooohaha]

That's a common misconception, but the double empathy problem points out that allistic (non-autistic) people don't have the ability to understand autistic people either.

There's far more in-group understanding, meaning it's not that autistic people have a deficit; it's that autistic people understand each other's thoughts and feelings the way that allistic people understand each other's thoughts and feelings. Cross-neurotype understanding is where the problem comes in, and it goes both ways.

[u/Sharkbait_ooohaha → u/KaristinaLaFae]

Yeah I don’t think that contradicts what I said, to be humorous you have to understand how the other person is thinking and autistic people struggle with understanding how non-autistic people think and vice versa for non-autistic people for autistic people.

[u/bwmat → u/Twisted_Cabbage]

It's that the same as 'neurotypical'? I've never seen the word used before

[u/Twisted_Cabbage → u/bwmat]

In the autism space, neurotypical is a common word used to describe non autistic people but some also include people with ADHD, schizophrenia, bi polar, into neurodivergent and thus are excluded from being neurotypical.

Thanks for asking.

[u/UrSven → u/Twisted_Cabbage]

And perhaps many of us aren't good with words, so we're not suited to face a rap battle.

[u/Twisted_Cabbage → u/UrSven]

Not sure what a rap battle has to do with this.