My whole family has a really dry sence of humor ..i respect it ..It's like we tell you your shit and then they laugh ..it's a gift.

Hmmm - that's a thinker. I have a daughter with Asperger's and her sense of humor is a bit off - you could say. Do I think it's genetic - yes, but it is strongly influenced by your environment too.

Some are still waiting... self-posting again, I see.........ha

Humour....like most healers...is under-rated.

Like the plant with the cure inside is often found NEAR the plant that harmed you.
Growing naturally....yet often overlooked.

Yes, I think it is genetic and I'm glad I got it from my Dad. My kids have it too, and so did my Dad's mom. so----

Irony? Bps best friend, perhaps part of/linked with BP gene..but aint we wicked.......

I think it is more nature than nurture.

I feel it is just your environment. I dont think pp are born funny. In the funny sense.

Hard to separate out the nature/nurture combo!!!
I laugh a LOT!!!!!! I giggle a lot, probably rather inanely! LOLOL!!!!
I love ironic things!!!!
I love gallows humor!!!!
I don't laugh openly at people when it's something that they don't think is funny, but on the rare occasion that I'm not laughing on the outside, I'm still doing it inwardly!!!
In my defense, though I AM horrible that way, I laugh just as much, if not more, at myself!!!
I've been like this my whole life!!!! I've only been BP for a couple years and I will admit that it someimes knocks the smile off my face, but not too often!! Besides, I spend most of my time in a mixed state!!! Even when I'm very depressed, I still crack jokes and laugh at things which strike me as funny!!!!
A lot of times, if I tell people I'm depressed, they think I'm kidding!!!!
Which I find pretty fucking funny!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

reminds self to invite carla, pluck and krystindianne and others here to a big party. It'd be a riot.

I say is is both, genetic and environmental. I say this because my son was practically born laughing! He has a dry sense of humor at 10 and I would say that came from my husband. My 2 cents.

Gads, this whole genetics thing, everything from love to war to laughter tied to genes.

Nowdays, Rodgers and Hart would write:

"Isn't it genetic, music in the night, a dream that can be heard"

freeheeler do i get to come to the party?

I didn't get it, but my family has what they call the (insert name here) joke gene. It causes one to be compelled to walk up to complete strangers and tell them inane jokes.

oooooooo I said insert! Maybe I'll get a letter!

I believe it's half genetic and half learned.. i'm a goof, and have turned my oldest into one,, but my youngest doesn't think we're that funny!
Also, my oldest gets to a point where she can't stop laughing, when she's overtired or has had sugar.. Same as when I was little.. so genetic in that sense