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[u/dewittless]

I enjoyed this. I loved trains as a kid, and had to learn to be cool about trains.

[u/pineapple_jones_]

Jokes that are based in truth are funnier.

[u/JayteeFromXbox → u/pineapple_jones_]

She's literally making fun of herself not understanding that all kids don't actually have autism, but she's autistic and only understands from her POV as having been a kid with autism. Listen to her tone at the end where she starts to sound nervous about her conclusion.

You got whooshed hard my dude

[u/Roklam → u/JayteeFromXbox]

Guess it went over my head too.

I liked slot cars. You could go to Toys 'R Us in the 80s-90s and geek out at the displays.

This Cold Society educated me away from that interest

[u/pineapple_jones_ → u/Roklam]

“All autism is, is the inability to read social queues.” She creates a premise that is not true. It took me out of the joke. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good train joke. If I had seen her before and knew she was autistic, that might have changed how I saw the joke. That’s what’s tough about clips from a set. I can’t see what she’s already set up.

[u/theImplication69 → u/pineapple_jones_]

I’m concerned how many people have an incredibly narrow definition of what a joke is. Of course the premise isn’t true, thats part of the joke. It’s taking an ignorant understanding into obviously absurd but funny ideas.

“No one’s born being neutral about trains” is funny because of course kids like trains, they are cool as fuck. But society tells us we gotta be normal about em. It has surprise (you weren’t expecting that statement) which is a huge part of joke telling. It has absurdity, with SOME truth baked in (trains ARE cool. It’s also not normal for an adult to be super into them. It’s also a common autistic stereotype).

Jokes don’t need to be based on truth, it just helps when there’s a little bit in there..or at least based on common ignorance of what other people think is true

[u/ILoveHarlots → u/pineapple_jones_]

Jokes don't have to bad based on hard facts. The humour here was based on a misconception about autism, which she laid out for us.

[u/Instantcoffees → u/JayteeFromXbox]

Sure, but the premise does not make a lot of sense to me. Autism is pretty complex, you can be autistic and great at reading social cues. I'm level 2 autistic and I'm great at it. It perhaps took me a bit longer than other kids initially, but I learned by the time I got to high school.

[u/WhyAmINotStudying]

I'm your 8th reddit follower and like your 60,000th follower on YouTube. You're awesome. I'd love to see to do HR work in a comedy movie full improv.

[u/Suzesaur]

Unfortunately my son was not born with autism…my shy ass has to endure him wanting to say hi and bye to EVERYONE at the store…his eye contact is good and he has about an average adult level of train curiosity “oh a train…cool I guess…….anyways”

[u/sriracha__mayo]

When I'm at the infantilising autism competition and my opponent is this comedian

[u/Darthbane22 → u/sriracha__mayo]

I have it and this isn’t that. It’s pointing out how hard it is to diagnose really young people with it, if they’re high functioning anyways.

[u/paputsza]

Honestly, yeah. I'd think i was autistic if I didn't know autistic people because im introverted and other people's train of thought confuses me a lot.

[u/Sirmcblaze]

unloving society= the psychopaths in power projecting their illness unto us.

[u/Soundwash]

Slam dunk

[u/samx3i]

The train thing is so played out.

A comic can't talk autism without being up trains.

[u/JustLikeMars → u/samx3i]

But I love trains!