My 10 year old Aspie kid told a joke today!

[Anonymous]

He told the joke with no prompting from me at all and with perfect pacing and timing. We all laughed. He laughed. It was awesome.

He is very verbal, normal to high functioning, but you know how it can be--his delivery is abrupt and often flat. He is unintentionally funny all the time. It was a really good day.

[Anonymous]

I am not a mom, but I am a teacher and am so excited for you! have a happy day!

[Anonymous]

YAY! I know first hand how these "little things" are so incredibly huge. I'm happy for you and him!

[Anonymous]

Great! Glad to hear that!

[Anonymous]

That's great. I'm happy for you.

[Anonymous]

Yay for you!!

[Anonymous]

What was the joke?

[Anonymous]

Yay!!

[Anonymous]

OP here. You guys seriously rock. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the joke?

He said it in front of a couple of other parents and 2 of their kids so I'm afraid I might out myself if I repeat it here. But it was a brief 3 part joke that required you to know the double meaning of a word spelled differently homophone such as knight vs night --so the joke was a play on words. It was huge for him. I was so happy for him. Here's to more days like this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He told the joke with no prompting from me at all and with perfect pacing and timing. We all laughed. He laughed. It was awesome.

He is very verbal, normal to high functioning, but you know how it can be--his delivery is abrupt and often flat. He is unintentionally funny all the time. It was a really good day.

I just finished one (the 3rd or 4th I've read) of Temple Grandin's books. Her editor talked about watching Temple learn to master telling a joke in public, and her pride when she had done so. She must have been in her late 40s or early 50s at the youngest.

Surviving autism as a teenager takes the heart of a lion. Your son is going to do great things.

Congratulations.

[Anonymous]

Wonderful!!