Wolf wrote:I try not to laugh at others, I like to laugh with them, but I can't help it if they don't want to laugh with me.

I get into trouble sometimes because of my humor. The worst is when I comment on other's illness. Being auto-immune my body comes up with some real doosies. There was a time when I did not look like me. People who knew Liz did not know me until I spoke ( I supposedly have an odd voice). I refer to that time as looking more like my brother than my brother. Since it has passed that is the best way I can describe it.
While on a 3 day trip with the church ladies one of them was allergic to something and her mouth swelled up. Everyone got so upset including me that this poor woman was going through this. When it was under control and she was back to normal, I made a comment that she looked like a "sock puppet". Wow how church ladies can turn on me that fast was unnerving.
I have always made light of my past illnesses. I don't know if it is because I moved to the south and they thought I was strange or was I always strange and the northern people just ignored me.
My father died of Hodgkins Lymphoma. He suffered for many years. When someone would ask him how he was his answer was "when your sick you don't feel good". He had to make it funny for the one who did not or was not concerned enough to understand.