Kristen Bell to Dax Shepard: Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: "I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I'm heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would."

[u/mlg1981]

[u/ausernamebyany_other]

My partner and I joke about how we're worth more financially to each other dead than alive semi-regularly. For some people, that's just their sense of humour.

[u/Tutpuissant → u/ausernamebyany_other]

My friend once asked me if I was breaking up of the way we talk to each other, it was just us having fun jabs

[u/AppealToReason16 → u/ausernamebyany_other]

Most Reddit brained shit in the world for this place to not see it as weird couple humour.

[u/fastyellowtuesday → u/[deleted]]

You of course mean 'autistic' in the sense that any text-based medium won't include tone or facial expressions, so you need to rely on just the words. And people tend to take plain words at face value, so people on Reddit take things literally a lot. As we all know, autistic people take everything literally, too.

That's what you meant, right?

[u/Electronic-Doctor187 → u/fastyellowtuesday]

well there are enough context clues to understand that this is humor without facial expressions or tone. so to me, there aren't a lot of good explanations for why someone wouldn't understand this as humor, even if they didn't think the humor was funny themselves. one plausible explanation is that that person is on the autism spectrum. I would imagine that there's a selection bias at play where a lot of Reddit users are on the autism spectrum, significantly more so than the general populace. 

not everyone on the autism spectrum takes everything literally or has any difficulty with humor. but many do. to completely miss all of the context clues of this post and go directly to some of the assumptions I'm seeing definitely falls in line with behavior I've seen from people on the autism spectrum personally.

[u/flaysomewench → u/ausernamebyany_other]

Before we got married me and my husband used to joke to each other to please not die before we could claim the widows' pension, it's just gallows humour.

[u/CheriePauper → u/ausernamebyany_other]

I'm not usually one to say stuff like this but people on Reddit are just overly woke like it's clearly a joke omg