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[quote=Anonymous]It's strange that a lot of people seem to think sarcasm is always humorous, or intended to be. But that's definitely not the case.

I posted upthread about coming from a very sarcastic family and realizing as an adult how toxic it was. My family is not very funny at all, in fact I'd say most of us have pretty weak senses of humor due to family dysfunction and trauma.

Most of the sarcasm I was raised around was just a way of saying unkind, judgmental, or superior things with some ironic distance, so that you could alway say "I was being sarcastic" if someone called you on it. So an example would be this conversation:

My dad: A "B" huh. I guess all that TV time really paid off.
Me: Sure did, good thing I have such loving and involved parents to keep me on the straight and narrow.

Maybe this sounds clever to you, but I've been in therapy long enough to recognize that it's two deeply insecure and hurt people talking around things, trying to score points against each other without actually addressing the massive dysfunction in their relationship. It's not funny, it's uncomfortable. And I'd say that most sarcasm falls in this category. Some people have the wit to deploy it as humor, but 99.9% definitely don't. This includes the vast majority of children.

My kid tells a few great fart jokes, though. I'd stick to that.[/quote]

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