Toilet Humour
Filed Under (Humour, Joy) by Estee on 21-06-2010
You have to hand it to kids. Just when I forget to laugh, Adam comes up with something to make me laugh about.
Like all boys his age, the proverbial fart joke is something hilarious. What makes the fart so darn funny? I remember my step-children, now all adults, in the backseat of our Durango farting and laughing. “Whoever smelt it, dealt it!” They would giggle, sounding like hyenas in the back seat between whines and squeals, between farts and trying to pinch and smack each other. Of course I laughed. The child’s giggle is infectious. The fart is eternally funny. It takes pretense back down to the level of human.
I was reminded of all this — what seems like eons ago now — when Adam farted this morning before school. “Oops you farted,” I commented and his giggle, the one he never wants to end, ensued.
I suppose I’m writing this not just because farts are funny, but because such toilet humour does not get lost on Adam — the autistic child who supposedly doesn’t get humour. It seems so incredible to me now these vast generalizations are so not applicable in the autistic people I meet.
While I’m not sure what this really says about me, tell me really if this doesn’t make you laugh. It makes Adam laugh!
ESTÉE KLAR
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Writer.Curator of Art. Founder of The Autism Acceptance Project. Mother of Adam. I like to write about our journey, musings, attitudes towards autism.
Ha! Oh, fart jokes … they are universal. My son also has a great (if slightly strange) sense of humor. (And he makes me laugh constantly.)
What wonderful way to start the day!!
Hello. You have a wonderful blog. Thank you for doing this. I love this post about toilet humor! It is too funny. Nothing is better than a good laugh to put the world in perspective (especially when the laughter comes from our cherished ones).
Beans, beans,
good for your heart:
the more you eat,
the more you fart.
The more you fart,
the better you feel –
so eat your beans
at every meal!
Oh, to be young again :-)