I strangely get humour. I pretend to misinterpret it though, if it's a bad joke, so they can look at it later and try to restructure it to improve their abilities.

Maybe it's because I had a quirky uncle who introduced me to humour.
Wanna play 52 card pick up" *deck in his hands*.
"What's that I asked", I was only a small kid.
"Do you wanna play it or not?!"
"Ok ok!"

He bent the deck back in his palm with his fingers, and then let go... they flew EVERYWHERE...

Puzzled, I looked at him. I don't get it?

He looked at me, paused for a second, trying not to laugh...
he said... pick em up, with a sly smile.

Took me about 3 seconds to click... OH!
... no! I ain't picking them up!

... I picked them up, after he left, lol.

That kind of humour probably isn't the best one to develop, but i'm pretty good at joking with people. Makes me come accross as a bit of a twat, I realise recently, but damn, that card trick, was freaking hilarious. It's actually a type of humour that attracts Girls I found out. I just did it because it made me laugh. (made a post earlier about Women, taking my communication/behaviour the wrong way, and having to push them away, lol).

So yes, JD, I also grew up a smartass. Very good at reactive humour, but telling joke jokes, yeah not for me, always emphasised in the wrong places growing up.

I had a few joke books though as a kid.
Went to this community group party thing.

There was a clown doing a show on stage.
His second act was telling jokes.

He asks us all "Why do cows wear bells around their necks?"
I yelled out, "BECAUSE THEIR HORNS DON'T WORK!"

... nothing... silence... poor guy must of been frozen.

Another joke a few long seconds later, I knew that one to...
After not responding to either, I shut the hell up and felt hurt and confused why he didn't respond. Wasn't til I was older, I realised why, lol.

I usually don't get some sarcasm, when it's something that is serious/affects me in someway, because I don't./didn't get it that people joke about serious stuff.

The thing with humour though, no one starts off good. Well apart from kids, cause kids speak the truth/their minds, and that's what stand ups do, say what everyones thinking about a topic and something which is relatable. "It's funny because it's true". I read all those joke books, and I read a joke about butter too, but I won't tell you, you'll only spread it... ahem. (one of them I read, lol), but in the end, creating your own humour, is something which is worth it. It's a good bridge for getting along with NT's. But even better, it's something that makes you happy.

I highly encourage anyone who isn't neurotypical, to learn and develop their humour. Takes a lot of stress out of the challenges we face.