I can't tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious

[cemeteryismyhome]

Does anyone else experience this stupid problem? For me, it started a long time ago when people would laugh at me when I was being serious. The more I tried to convince them I was being serious, the harder they laughed. Not laughing AT me, but because they really thought I was really being funny. Fast-forward many years, and now I don't even know. I think I lost part of my mind or something.

 

[psp3000]

This would happen to me a lot in my childhood and teens (to the point where my highschool classmates saw me as a comedian, I even got a joke certificate at the end of the year for this) when I still had in real life interactions with people which makes me suspect that I had Aspbergers Syndrome. Or people thinking I am serious when I am actually joking about something.

Do you often have to regulate or basically act out how your voice is supposed to sound too (emotion wise) instead of using your real voice ?

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

Do you often have to regulate or basically act out how your voice is supposed to sound too (emotion wise) instead of using your real voice ?

I usually forget to do that, but I've been told many times that my tone of voice is off, and I don't even realize it. When I do manage to stop and adjust, I realize my tone of voice was not nearly what I intended. I've accidentally started baffling arguments. Now I'm going to research that.