My daughter does this and its not fun sometimes. A lady at the DR office tripped and DD busted out laughing. I told her that wasn't nice and she needed to say sorry. At that point she realized it wasn't a nice thing to do and started bawling. She begged the lady to forgive her, I felt like I was on fire, my face was so red.
If she thinks something on tv, or in a book is funny, she will laugh about it for a very long time. My 5 year old gets a little tired of it and will try to explain in his bratty brother voice how it really isn't that funny. Then DD says 'The brother makes me angry, I am going to my room, everyone stay out.' I hear that one ALOT.
R does this sometimes - he gurgles with laughter Its very charming to watch
The little boy I work with does this. It happens mostly when I am trying to be serious with him, and when he is falling asleep. When he falls asleep he talks to himself, and then laughs, and laughs, and laughs. It is cute at first, and nice to see him so happy. Then other kids get annoyed, so now we discourage it with a simple, "Shhhhhh, it's nap time!"
Sebastian laughs like that,but his laugh isnt fake sounding, it is a cracking up from his soul almost to the point of laugh till you cry. When my husbands GrandMother died 3 years ago Sebastian started laughing during the eulogy, that same laugh, from the soul and HE WOULD NOT STOP. My husband was sitting with his mother at the front of the chapel,turned and mouthed the words TAKE HIM OUT!! I took him out and asked him to please stop laughing, but he laughed even more,he laughed for about 20 minutes. A relative came out to talk to me and told me that she thinks maybe he sees angels and maybe they make him laugh. When he was about 15 month old he would laugh that way but when he would stop he would stare strait ahead without blinking face motionless almost in a trance like state, very spooky. Anybody have this happen to your child?Thanks zayzer. I dont know WHY my ds is doing this-did it again last night!
I'm confused by one thing: Why do they call it 'inappropriate'?
I mean... non-autistic kids used to tease me and laugh on the playground, just for being who I was, and that was considered 'appropriate'.
And yet if someone simply doesn't understand why I'm laughing, and I am not being cruel, that's inappropriate?
Maybe a more honest term for clinicians to use would be incomprehensible or for unknown reasons. gtto39265.7829050926
AUTISTICS DO IT....full-stop. Not normal to us...but it's perfectly normal to them.
My Daniel does it... but I go a step further. I engage him by asking in an exaggerated manner.... "Heyyy!! Daniel... What is so funny ??" If he doesn't answer, I throw in options... "Is it the car? pon!pon! Is it a dog? woof!woof! " If he can tell me what amused him...then great. If not, then we'll just drop the issue and carry on...
I sometimes laugh or snicker as an immediate reaction if I am unsure of how I should respond to what is said.
I also will script conversations to myself, especially when I feel like I really need to talk to someone about something. And I will sometimes make myself laugh if something funny turns up, almost as though I were in an actual conversation where something funny was said. I try to hold back my laugh though, if people are around. usually I will conceal the smile by pretending to lick the corner of my mouth or burying the side of my face in my shoulder, or something like that.If people question me I usually just shrug them off because it's usually an inside thing and so they probably won't think it's funny unless I set it up for them. But setting it up makes me lose my train of thought so I try to brush inquirers off if possible.I remember inappropriately laughing alot as a kid, usually if i saw a picture or heard a strange sound or word. It was nothing a normal person would laugh at. I know thats part of the diagnostic criteria and probably means your kids brain is producing that chemical that makes them, at least at that point, happy to the point of laughing. He sounds too young too be laughing at specific stimuly, but when he gets older itll probably happen every now and then, really means nothing more then that especally if you already have him diagnosed, its more something to have expected possibly.My 3 yr old ds woke up at 4 am last night and was babbling in a happy way to himself and also laughing/giggling. It went on for almost an hour. Today he did a little of it in the car...is it a stim? I have seen on eveals the questiondoes your child have inappropriate laughter, and I always answered "NO"> If he does, what does it mean? Zayzer - C had a eeg when he was younger and it was normal, but I am wondering,,,what makes you think seizures for the laughter? I just wondered if it was a sign ,if we should get another one done? Also, on the good side, inappropriate laughter IS better than inappropriate screaming!lol!
she sometimes laughs a little longer than normal kids with a lil exaggerated tones to it..I just tell her she can stop now. Susan Senator describes her son (in her book 'making peace with autism')
as having periods of inappropriate laughter. He also seems to wake in the
night and laugh for long periods. I think she kind of decided at some
point that it was an attempt of his to communicate.
My ds has a laugh at times that sounds really fake. I think it is because
he realizes that he does 'not get' some stuff other kids laugh at and he
just makes himself laugh when he feels he should. my son does the inappropiate laughter sometimes, he just laughs at things he do or pranks.... but doesnt stop at all until he wants to.
My son does that. At a younger age he would do if for long periods of time. I remember one night he woke up around 2am and laughed for about 2 hours, then went back to sleep.
We question seizures and he has has 2-30 min eegs that were normal but he is getting a 2 day eeg in September because in order to be more certain that he does not have seziures he needs a longer eeg.
dbcmom-I had read about a type of seizure that caused laughing but there are other reasons we suspect seizures; regressions, staring spells some hand shakes. The teacher reported some eyerolls and head going back at school. The only thing the two short eegs picked up was some abnormal sleep wave patterns. The Dr. think the other eegs are too short so we have to travel two hours to a hospital that can do the longer eeg. There are also seizures that occur only at night. It is just very strange thing to witness. I have two older girls who are nt and they never did anything like this. At first it is so funny and cute it makes me laugh and then when it goes on and on it make me worry.
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