Laughter Is The Best Medicine for Autism

Why do we have a sense of humor about something as serious as Autism? Here’s why: 

• A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher

• A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done - Dwight D. Eisenhower

• A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. - Hugh Sidey

• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

• As soon as you realize everything's a joke, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. - Alan Moore, Watchmen

• Comedy is acting out optimism. - Robin Williams

• He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole

• How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. - Ogden Nash

• Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. - Allen Klein

• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. - Thomas Carlyle

• Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

• Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

• Humor is just another defense against the universe. - Mel Brooks

• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. - Langston Hughes

• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. - Christopher Morley

• Humor is reason gone mad. - Groucho Marx

• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. - Victor Borge

• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

• Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. - Christian Morgenstern

• Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell. – Will Cuppy

• I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark

• If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And, if I can persuade you to laugh at a particular point that I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge it as true. – John Cleese

• If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. - Jennifer Jones

• I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. - John Cleese

• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Francis Bacon

• It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. - Oscar Wilde

• Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings. - Maya Angelou

• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. - Karl Barth

• Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. - Martin Amis

• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. - Langston Hughes

• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. - Eric Sevareid

• No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. - Stephen Colbert

• Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. - George Saintsbury

• That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. – John Lennon

• The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity. - R. A. Lafferty

• The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes. - Bert Williams

• The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. - Jacob August Riis

• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. – Søren Kierkegaard

• The secret to humor is surprise. - Aristotle

• There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. - Bill Cosby

• Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - Colette

• Tragedy is when I cut my finger.  Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

• When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck