Hearing laughter can make another person laugh.
In the palpable light giggles you let pop out, the same thing triggers the listener to participate in the joke about the silly stories people love to share.
When I’m listening to the laughing, I’m highly aware of the giddy great feeling that lasts beyond the punchline.
Our lives are often hard. And I’ll be the first to tell you the truth about autism is that we don’t always get the joke. Our minds work in every way different from other people. Mean or less clean humor doesn’t seem fine.
The most important thing you can get from humor is that we have to leave the seriousness. Hopefully, you find it in the heart of the story that we have found the great silly side of our lives.
I’m learning that one who laughs is not crying and subsequently is turning dark into light. To heal is not to forget. Healing is to see that what is most important is giving something a new lens. That must also include having the courage there in your vision to transform painful moments into predictors that ultimately we will survive.
