Fun Ultra-deep Fact: I have to actively not be serious. I explain below in severe detail.
You, who have had a few moments where we laughed together, know I go for the joke.
Maybe you’ve heard me say, “I laugh at myself.” Another way of saying this is I won’t tell a joke I haven’t laughed at. It’s a personal principle.
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High off my own supply
I don’t have a high supply of the substance that gives a person satiation. What you don’t have a lot of runs out quickly, like toilet paper. So, I created my own machine to produce the feeling – or get really close.🤏🏾
Imagine this: a person rests on an inclined bed with an IV in their arm; Humor is being added to the IV bag by a pair of nurse’s hands; the nurse’s Crocs are full of panda charms —sorry, sorry for that last part. I guess what I’m saying is I need funny intravenously.
Hey, Friends, if you love to feel satisfied, ask your doctor or pharmacist about Zelzo-transe!💊 **
Obsession
I use humor because I’m very serious about any system I create or follow at any time. Depending on how deeply we’ve shared, maybe you’ve heard me describe myself as “I’m always angry.” That’s a joke. I think of the feeling as my being “wound up tightly” instead of anger.
I need to give myself laughs to chill out when I’m having an unchill experience. The majority of those experiences are internal and slide under an observer’s radar. However, I was blessed with the ability to obsess over many processes over long periods.
Die without you
Laughing is something I need in a way that I wouldn’t be healthy – mind and body – without it. My body would break down. This sense of humor is too integral to my system function.
Someone was onto something when they said laughter is the best medicine. Those sentences were fun to write.
Feeling satisfied
A human experiences a feeling where they think, “I am pleased with my current state and/or environment”. Literally, that exact statement is what every human being ever thinks to themselves, and in English. We can call that feeling satiation.
“satiation,” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satiation. Accessed 3/29/2025.
I need to give a measured effort to boost myself into feeling satisfied. Feeling joy takes super duper high effort. High effort = high energy, and that’s likely why joy doesn’t last for long periods. My joy seems to need regular high doses of adrenaline and dopamine in the mixture.
Kid Michael is my hero
Very young Michael — bless the long-headed savior — figured out that laughing helps the satisfaction meter spike toward joy. He also figured out he could imitate the characters on TV and make people laugh in real life.
Making himself laugh AND making someone else laugh at the same time could cause the meter to redline — when you laugh hard enough to impact your body’s life functions, like the respiratory or digestive systems. Those are win-win scenarios.
Later, he rooted his personality in his sense of humor. He aimed to invite someone else to laugh at things he thought were funny.
I laugh to make situations outside me or mental triggers more tolerable and interesting.
Humor and memory
I have a good memory. I watched a lot of TV – all the funny and exciting things I could see. By proximity, I mentally captured acting styles, bits, and dialogue. Then, I imitated, customized, and recycled. I have a fast memory, and maybe those brain connections keep taut and in shape. I’m witty because speed of accessing and synthesizing memories.
I was born to two charismatic and funny people. Charisma and a relatable sense of humor make you appealing, and my odds were high for receiving both character traits.
Add favorite seasoning
In short, I laugh to make mental triggers and situations outside me more bearable and interesting. Dare I say it’s a coping…mechanism. No, it seriously feels like I need to add a tiny bit more seasoning to situations.
Humor is the easiest because it’s my most practiced method to raise my excitement about an experience.
Neurodivergent
If someone convinces you you’re broken, they can sell you a fix.
I had a thought that made me chuckle. Admittedly, it’s a dark realization that I’m going to make fun of. Neurodivergent people have superpowers.
Coincidentally, I am typing this article as I got a new idea for a list* item blurb that I switched over to iPhone Notes to add. What amazed me – and what I consider super power-level ability – is that this list has 129 entries, and I knew that I hadn’t already written this one. I heard the voice in my head say, “Nice, I don’t have that one,” between switching apps and finding the note.
Because that surprised me after looking at how many entries are in this list, I’m dedicating some text to it in this article as a real-life, real-time testimony.
Give money to fix it
To circle back to the quotable line a few paragraphs up, normal people would not want superpowered people to know they have superpowers. Normies would definitely not want superpowered people to use their powers.
They might be afraid of you, but not afraid enough to resist exploiting you. They would be prepared to sell you a fix for each way they say you’re broken. The sales machine runs off selling you the idea you need fixing.
Some Neuros break through
The beauty in understanding the dynamics of superpowers is that I get to see people who have broken through to live a life where they have a very high number of choices for how their life plays out — i.e., success.
Think of three popular standup comedians. Imagine how many choices they have because of their earnings. Consider the degree of difficulty in memorizing a set of stories and delivering the stories over a 60 minute period…on multiple occasions and in multiple venues.
Also, each time you tell the stories with the same energy to trigger the emotion(s) you want from the audience. There’s memorization and acting. There’s discernment. Sometimes, there’s mirroring too like in crowd work. It’s a super-powered level of brain and body use.
Standup comedy is a superhuman feat
I say that to say I appreciate being able to see so many labeled neurodivergent people succeeding. Whether they acknowledge a diagnosis or not, the successful have pulled together the productive parts of their mental characteristics and woven them together to build a ladder to climb…solidify a foundation of…build a Kevlar butterfly net that takes…I don’t know, I’m not coming up with a good metaphor. Can I just finish writing for now?
Cool. Thanks.
* The running list is compiled with examples of English being a bad language. The name is still a work in progress, and you’ll know it when I begin publishing the video series.
** My kids laugh at a bit I do where I imitate medication commercials and make up a drug name
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