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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You're on quite a roll today, Soup! Nice!
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Alright. Lots and lots of feedback, and very funny testimonials as well. Thank all of you guys for helping me clarify that humor represents a critical aspect of intelligence, especially in children.
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Thank you for asking the question. I enjoyed reading these stories.
When you say that humor represents a critical aspect of intelligence I really believe that is true. I think humor is almost another learning style for my son. When he learns something, he often relates it to something else in a funny way.
For example, yesterday I was in the car with my daughter and 10 year old son when my son asked if we could stop by a fast food restaurant. My daughter didn't order a drink because she thought her brother would share, like he always used to when she would ask.
This time when she asked for a drink of his Dr. Pepper, he said "No, why didn't you order your own when you had the chance?" and "Is this the latest version of "Brother can you spare a dime" (a song that became the anthem of the Great Depression). I said "Just give her a drink." He said Oh, so I don't really have a choice here. Isn't this like some kind of socialism, which you say you don't agree with? I don't really own anything and no matter what I do or what they didn't do I have to share with them (I guess he felt that he had done all the work by being successful in talking me into stopping at the restaurant and his sister didn't "earn" her drink because she didn't bother to order anything).
His sister wanted to know what happened to the sweet little bubba she used to know. I told her he was starting to go through p-u-b-e-r-t-y and she wasn't exactly a sweet little kid when she went through it.
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My 10 year old son says funny things that sometimes take me a few minutes to get. Sometimes I can't stop laughing and I am somewhere where you are supposed to be quiet and he will say something like "Mom, are you okay? It really wasn't that funny." and he will look at me with a serious look on his face and tell me that it might help to bite my tongue and if that doesn't work, and then he gets an even more serious look on his face and puts his hands on my shoulders, he says very seriously "think about the stimulus package."
His humor is not limited to wordplay. He uses accents and sometimes different voices and physical humor and acts out funny improv things that he makes up and he does not break character, even though he is looking them straight in the eye and they are laughing. Lori- That's "my" DS10 you're talking about!! We were just on vacation driving around(for a long time) looking for a restaurant when our DS broke into a spur of the moment improv(with accent) and he kept going & going while we were driving & driving! A few years back my DS was at my Mom's and when I called to check on him he answered the phone with a french accent acting like I called a restaurant instead. He would not break character and "I'm embarrassed to admit" he had me going for awhile thinking I misdialed. I asked him if he ever does his characters for his friends and he said no, that they wouldn't think it was funny. He said he works instead on seeing if he can make me and his dad laugh.
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She thinks if he were in school that kids would like him because of his sense of humor. She says she is sure that girls would like him. She said she remembers when she was in middle school that the smart, funny guys sometimes had better looking girlfriends than some of the jocks. But she went to a city school and not a small town sports obsessed school. Exactly. It works in small towns, too. Girls turn 17 and some start thinking about the real world. Going out every weekend, getting drunk, picking fights, telling the same jokes over and over again, and their jock BF who has no future because he never studies and is actually pretty dull - it gets pretty old. Along comes a kid, destined for college, actually looks beyond her looks and clothes and makes funny stories and makes the world an interesting place. She sees that goofy nerd will be a good looking guy in another year or two. Besides, his comments give her something to laugh about when she is all by herself. Austin & Lori- Thanks for your bits of wisdom. My DS10 and I just had this conversation last night regarding his best buddy that "gets all the girls"! I'm going to share this with him so he can hear it from someone other than "just mom". How does that go, "An expert comes from 100 miles away and carries a briefcase." You may not have briefcases, but your my experts!!
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Last time I spoke with DS8's principal - who to this day refuses to utter the word "gifted" - he commented on what a great sense of humor DS has, and that he has seen instances in which an adult will crack a joke to another adult and he can see DS react, whereas the rest of the kids have no clue what's going on.
So I printed off lists of gifted characteristics from 4 different sources, highlighted the "sophisticated humor" lines, and mailed it to him with a letter suggesting that he might recognize these traits in DS and some of his peers.
He has never acknowledged it.
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I think my son's sense of humor might possibly get him into trouble if he isn't careful. I don't think I would want him to say what he said today at a friend's house or at church. We were doing an online vocabulary quiz and the word irascible came up. He saw that irritable was one of the choices and he said "ir-ass-ible? Well, the first part of word sounds like it could be a portmanteau of the words irritable and that word Dad calls me sometimes that comes after the word smart.
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"Is this the latest version of "Brother can you spare a dime" (a song that became the anthem of the Great Depression). I said "Just give her a drink." That is funny, LOL. That reminds me of DD10. She got dressed in a hurry the other day and came into the living room with the pockets of her pants sticking inside out. I pointed this out to her and she said: "Oh, maybe I'm starting a new trend with Obama flags" and then fixed the pockets. It took me a minute to figure out she was making a comment about Hoover flags during the Great Depression. When I finally laughed out loud, I saw a smirk on her face because she knew I "got it". Jen
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Have to share this: I worked with a couple of very gifted sixth-grade girls, "H" and "N", back in 2007, and I was aware that H had quite a crush on me. So H and I are playing chess one day, N sitting by patiently waiting to play the winner, and H makes a move and calls "check". I look around the board for a minute and say "actually, I think that's mate" - and N, totally deadpan, quips "Well, looks to ME like that's what's going on here." H was completely mortified and turned the brightest shade of red I've ever seen. For my part, I literally fell off my chair laughing.
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I love this thread!!! DD has also had a sarcastic streak since she could speak. One other thing I have always found unusual about her vs. her 16 cousins, is that she will ask me why things are funny. She dissects humor. It can make me crazy because I just want to say "because it is" but it's all part of the ride :-)
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