... but, secret?
... hatred/disgust?
... humor?
... secret hatred/disgust of humor?
Feel free to expound or illustrate. This the "Emo" thread, after all.
Okay, you asked for it. Anyone who doesn't like emo, this is your cue to skip ahead.
Scenario - Reality: It's Friday afternoon, and your class has been bugging you to let them watch cartoons for the class party for ages, so you treat them and record a few episodes of the Simpsons and Looney Toons. They have fun with it and have a great time.
Scenario - Through the spectrum kid's eyes:
You have no context for understanding the TV show that's playing, because your family has never had a TV and you don't have friends whose TV you could watch. You just know it's the class reward for being good all week. A guy is collecting a massive pile of sugar in his back yard, going through all kinds of trials and tribulations to protect it. But he's stupid, and his stupidity is putting all his hard work at risk. At the end of the show, it rains and all the sugar melts away. You feel horribly sick. You know what he did wrong: cared too much about something. Everybody around you is laughing. You know that you are expected to enjoy seeing something like this happen to someone.
A family of pigs, and the
who is trying really hard to be accepted by them, are coming back from a family vacation. The car comes to a tunnel, and they dare each other to hold their breath all the way through. Nobody sees the "5 mile tunnel" sign. You know from swimming classes that a person who spends five minutes underwater drowns, and from family vacations that on the highway people drive at a mile a minute. All the characters are getting desperate for air and turning all kinds of interesting colors. The
can't make it and takes a breath. Defying all logic, all of the pigs make it. They make fun of the
and at the end of the episode, kick him out of the family. But enduring their social rite of passage would have killed him. You are expected to find this funny.
Now maybe this confusion would push you outside your normal zone of balance, you would start crying, someone would come along to comfort you, and it would all be better. But at home if you ever get that emotional, you are being systematically trained to hide it and keep your mouth shut. So you can only conclude that the TV show is illustrating the rules that people have to live by in order to make it in the real world.