{"id":1812,"date":"2013-05-22T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2014-01-21T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T02:46:06","slug":"can-autistic-children-make-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Can Autistic Children Make or Tell Jokes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A student with ASD told me “Let me tell you a joke!” I gave her my 200% attention and said: “Go ahead!” But deep inside I thought that it will definitely sound like anything but a joke. Here is what she said: “A student went to school without doing his homework. When the teacher asked him why didn’t he do it, the student said: didn’t you tell me that today’s home work is a piece of cake! So, I went home and ate it.”<\/p>\n

I am not quite sure if this is<\/p>\n

It was interesting that the student asked me right after telling the joke, if she can have a piece of cake homework. In her eyes I could tell that she was trying to avoide doing homework, without having to eat it.<\/p>\n

We know that one important trait of autism is being literal. But this student was able to take both perspectives: the “typically developed” (because she was laughing about eating the homework), and the “autistic” perspective (by being literal). She figured out that playing with words can be funny.<\/p>\n

I was so happy that this child was communicating and socializing while telling me the funny joke.<\/p>\n

What a joy to work with spectrum children. They really “think different”! They think out of the box! You can never get bored working with spectrum children.<\/p>\n

I would rather say: It is a privilege to work with autistic children.<\/p>\n

nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anecdote A student with ASD told me “Let me tell you a joke!” I gave her my 200% attention and said: “Go ahead!” But deep inside I thought that it will definitely sound like anything but a joke. Here is what she said: “A student went to school without doing his homework. When the teacher … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,10,30,31,382],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-flexibility","tag-social-interaction","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}