it doesn't really bother me too much, I just noticed it kept happening. I guess it makes me feel our age difference a bit because, as I said, his laughing is like the way you laugh at a child when they do something amusing or phrase something in a silly way. but that's not necessarily bad. I haven't been going very long (maybe 3.5 months) and have never been to therapy so I guess I am still figuring him out and also figuring therapy out in general.

to give a couple examples:

--sometimes I will say just say "yeah" or "okay" a few times as he is telling me things, and he will start chuckling to himself, and I will say, "What? What are you laughing about?" and he will say "You say that like you want me to shut up" or "to get me to shut up," or one time he mimicked my "yeah" back to me.

--one time he was telling me I should write about what happened and explaining how he would go about it, and I think I said "yeah" or "okay" while he was explaining, and he stopped and laughed to himself and said "You aren't going to do it."

--due to being completely dead inside from abuse, I have a flat affect and tend to say things in a very deadpan way, no matter what I am talking about, and sometimes he will chuckle to himself briefly when I say things and I think this is why, because I am basically Daria and he finds that amusing? e.g. one time I said my friends in high school started doing coke and heroin, and he asked me why I didn't start doing coke or heroin with them, and I said "Well, it seems unpleasant." I wasn't at all trying to be funny or sarcastic, it was just deadpan, but he laughed to himself.